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...that Friedkin tried to prevent her from taking credit even on job resumes for her role as Linda's body in the movie's major dramatic moments. In the face of Warner's denial, she insists: "I shot several exorcism scenes and played nearly all the vomit scenes." Added Eileen: "If Linda wins an Oscar, I'll be the first to cheer...
...head; her skin swells and turns a swamp color; her hair gets sticky and snaky; her voice comes out the croak of a just-cured male mute; convulsions contort her body and it flips like a wounded crocodile's tail; she drools green gook when she is not squirting vomit (pea soup) into the faces of the psychiatrists and priests who come to treat her. Before the guests at her mother's dinner party she urinates on the carpet; she smashes a psychiatrist in the groin; strapped to her bed she makes drawers open and windows crash and the furniture...
...rest of the movie. Because there is nothing to it--it is all mindless filler, padding to launch the action. The movie's high is in the special effects that ran up the movie's budget from 4 to 10 million dollars as Friedkin kept mashing up more vomit effects into his vomit movie. He must have gotten carried away, which is lucky for the investors. What a good gamble they made, those wizards, when they guessed that people would want to get sick at the movies. Maybe they noticed that people also stock up on T.V. dinners, dash-board...
...everybody listening to Nixon? Time after time he has proven himself untrustworthy, and time after time experience has proven that the initial impulse to laugh (or moan, or vomit) upon hearing his speeches is justified. Yet, at the very nadir of his notorious credibility, when all logic would suggest that the man should be ignored, people are not only listening--they are believing and obeying. Could this just be a case where Nixon happens to be right, that one proverbial exception that underlines the rule...
Earlier, soon after the astronauts had docked their command module with Skylab, Pogue (who had shown the least susceptibility to motion sickness during tests on earth) became queasy and coughed up a mouthful of vomit. As a safety measure Mission rules require that all such incidents be reported immediately to the ground. But the crew decided to keep quiet: "It's just between you, me and the couch," said Pogue. There was only one hitch: the astronauts forgot that all conversations in the command module were being taped and later piped to the ground. After discovering the coverup, Chief...