Word: tubercular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Just before we left, we went upstairs to see our brother. He had asked for one of his favorite dishes, tomato gravy on toast; we brought some up with us, and I remember how much he enjoyed it. Two days later he died. The doctor said that it was tubercular encephalitis...
...epoch sorely lacking men of principle. Although his career suffered accordingly, the legend that lingers only profits from this irrepressible streak. But in the film this trait is largely neglected until the concluding portion, when Russell decides to end the film with a famous boxing exhibition between a tubercular Valentino and a reporter from a New York paper that had published a scathing criticism of the film idol. To wind up the movie with this inherently ludicrous vignette raises some doubts as to Russell's real attitude towards his subject. The prima donna in Valentino dominates the film from start...
...father, an Italian immigrant who grew up near Waterbury, Conn., worked as a barber at $15 a week while Sirica's mother ran a grocery store, and the family (including John's brother Andrew) lived in a single room at the back. Afflicted with a tubercular cough, the father was warned by his doctor to seek a warmer climate, setting the Siricas off on a gypsy existence that took them to Ohio, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and California. "It was an uphill fight against poverty, poverty, poverty," Sirica recalls...
During the summer of 1916, Franz and Felice spent a week together in Marienbad. If there was any physical intimacy between them, the letters make no allusion to it. One month after the announcement of the second engagement in July 1917, Kafka writes Felice of his first tubercular hemorrhage. He seems to have broken the news with a sense of relief. TB was not only a way out of marriage but, he believed, nature's final judgment-the fatal wound caused by his warring selves...
...ground an elusive agronomist portrayed by Vladek Sheybal, whose huge eyes pop out of his head like a couple of painted Ping Pong balls. Sheybal brings off a flaw less vocal impression of Peter Lorre, with the same slightly lisping tones that sound threatening and tubercular at the same time, as if he might run short of breath before he was through telling you to stick your hands...