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...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...

Author: By Melissa Lee, | Title: Reflect on the Future Of Black-Jewish Relations | 2/12/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Honor Roll Murder | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Grooving on This Astonishing World | 8/7/1992 | See Source »

...never had the discomfort of asking a rowdy neighbor to shut up at 3 a.m., and living three people to a room meant that I never had to listen to the squeaking bedsprings of a roommate in love. No beer puddles on the floor outside my bedroom, no vomit in the bathroom. I got really good grades that year...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Happiness Is Hurlbut And Friends | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

...buck and go "Mmmmm!" because I had a cold. I had to make them understand that they couldn't completely cover my mouth, because I couldn't breathe. You'd get exhaust fumes underneath the truck. I was deathly afraid during one move that I was going to vomit -- I was very sick, and of course my mouth was taped up -- and that I would choke to death on my vomit. When we went to South Lebanon, it was four or five hours underneath that thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terry Anderson: The World is Fresh and Bright and Beautiful | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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