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...these two sports. I have vivid memories of swimming in my freshman year in prep school and feeling like I was going to throw up after every practice (I didn't) and running the half mile for the next three years and feeling like I was going to vomit after every race (I did most of the time). I was willing to go through the agony of an 880 and the ritual throwing-up because I ran good times and won, while I wasn't really so thrilled about turning green after swimming because I was awful and never came...
...movie, which will open in New York City on Feb. 1, is already a sensation and a scandal in Europe. It has been called a "pornographic Elvira Madigan" as well as a work of "constant beauty"; a piece of "talented debauchery that often makes you want to vomit" as well as an "authentic moral and psychological Apocalypse." Debates about its meaning and merits are raging among critics, intellectuals, theologians and editorial writers...
Turnbull relates the ghastly results, a breakdown of social relations so total that today healthy men and women, given food in plenty for their families, will gobble and gorge until they vomit, rather than share anything even with their infants. It was common, he writes, "to see the very young prying open the mouths of the very old and pulling out food they had been chewing." Children are torpid and withdrawn. If a man's wife falls by the trailside, he will leave her to die, then grumble if someone else robs the body first. The old, weak...
...hands broke out with tiny red blisters, he often slept fitfully, and he developed chest pains. Before long he considered himself "used up, consumed -the job is draining my life away." There were times, he writes, when he "wanted to vomit" at the futile debate in the House about the war. Angry, he once took the floor to expose the fact that many of his colleagues were absent from the discussion because they were playing paddle ball in the House gymnasium...
Drouin had dead-ended the digestive system, creating a closed tract that could only be emptied by vomiting. One patient, a 32-year-old truck driver who weighed 385 lbs., choked on his own vomit and died nine days after the operation. When an autopsy revealed the reason, Drouin brought the other patients, two sisters who weighed nearly 300 lbs. each, back into the hospital for corrective surgery. It was too late; both women had already developed abdominal infections and other complications; both died...