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...stop wind sprints at the end of each practice session until a sizable number of players vomit, have muscle cramps or collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Seven Ways to Kill a Football Player | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...going to happen makes an innocent event like a young woman skinny-dipping on a summer night doubly frightening. A movie like laws thrives in the public eye because it delivers the goods. The Exorcist procliamed that it had a couple of jackpots--the crucifix, the flying green vomit--behind curtain number three, and it had to be seen to be believed. Everything else was just garbage--the eleven bad songs to fill out the hit single album. Jaws was more refreshing than. The Exorcist partly because it didn't pretend that the filler was anything else but a vehicle...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: A Few Ways of Not Liking 'Nashville' | 7/25/1975 | See Source »

Jean Cocteau led such a fiamboyant life that it tended to overshadow his work. In love with a young motorcyclist at one time he used to follow him around in his chauffeur-driver limousine and vomit each time the led made a dangerous turn, to the delights of meansprited Parisians Orpheus is probably the most theatrically successful of this unsavory man's unusual ouevre. At the Ex, tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday (as well as next weekend...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE STAGE | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

...December, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals declared that Iowa's use of vomit-inducing apomorphine was cruel and unusual punishment-and therefore unconstitutional-unless the inmate gives knowing, written consent, which can be revoked "at any time." Injections of apomorphine continue, but only under conditions set by the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Behavior Mod Behind the Walls | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...When watching The Exorcist, I was sure that God, too, felt bemused, and the Devil was laughing his head off. The audience I saw giggled and laughed when it was supposed to faint and vomit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1974 | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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