Word: vomiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assorted connivers exploiting his plight. In contrast to royal marriages of the present generation, the King's bond with Queen Charlotte is presented as intensely companionable, albeit not monogamous. The primary villains are the doctors, one therapeutically obsessed with inspecting bowel movements, another with making the King sweat and vomit, a third with blistering his flesh, a fourth with humiliating him into submission. None does the least good. His problem is chemical imbalance, and his remission -- alas, only temporary -- results from the body's healing itself...
...reflects on what might strike the unprepared visitor as the wretched pictorial ineptitude of such artists as Sue Williams, Raymond Pettibon, Mike Kelley and Karen Kilimnik. (Williams can't draw at all, although her installation The Sweet and Pungent Smell of Success includes a dandy splotch of plastic vomit.) Their work, says the catalog, "deliberately renounces success and power in favor of the degraded and dysfunctional, transforming deficiencies into something positive in true Warholian fashion." Presumably if they weren't vigilant with themselves, they might turn into teensy Titians, engorged with mastery...
...Osborn Jr. novel, and the subsequent movie and TV show, and more especially SCott Turow's harrowing ONe L, students have probably been prepared to have their egos cracked by the academic rigors of the place. Of course, it can still be a little startling to be spattered by vomit from an unstrung classmate during an exam, as happened to one student long...
...body. Kang and Choe, waiting in the next room, heard Tay scream and ask, "What did I do to you?" Chan, apparently angered that Tay was still alive, poured rubbing alcohol down his throat and forced his mouth shut with duct tape. Tay died within minutes from his own vomit...
...essay on Nadia Comeneci is more devastating. In a series of depressing interviews, the Rumanian gymnast bosses waiters at restaurants, lies to Harrison about her collaboration with the murderous dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and periodically leaves the table to vomit up the large quantities of food she stuffs into her mouth...