Word: vomiting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yelling and waving their machetes. Over two grueling hours, they crowd 111 people aboard the vessel; each passenger's legs spread to accommodate the person in front of him. When the voyage finally starts, there is no room to move. The ship is leaky and reeks of gasoline. Passengers vomit. Others sleep. By the time the sun rises, everybody is stiff and tense...
...first-year study also found that binge drinking can cause serious side effects for those students who are not involved in the behavior but are affected by their peers actions. Wechsler said students should not feel responsible for cleaning up vomit or for babysitting roommates at parties. Nor should they be awakened or have their study time interrupted by those parties...
...uses them sparingly: this is a book about a life, not compositional technique. By the time the reader encounters the dying Mozart, who was so bloated and reeking of internal corruption that witnesses said the stench was unbearable, and whose last act was to expel a torrent of brown vomit, any romantic clichas of the periwigged rococo china doll who wept when Marie Antoinette refused to kiss him have long been dispelled. In their place is a far more realistic Mozart of flesh and blood, whose musical mastery was not a gift of the gods but the life's work...
...narrator, Jimi tends to focus on the most unsavory moments of his life. With the morbid curiosity of an adolescent he describes the smells, shapes, and the sizes of his own chunks of vomit. He strives to get it just right. But do we care? Many passages in this book, like the pulp it's named after, deserves nothing more than a skimming, if that...
Hanks distanced himself from the Pudding's sophmoric excess. He told reporters that past Men of the Year, Stephen Spielberg and Kevin Costner, had encouraged him to seize the opportunity to watch undergraduates in tuxedos vomit from champagne. Meg Ryan told him, "It's a hoot!" At the end of the night, there was indeed puke on the stairs, so the evening was a success...