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Morris says she once went into the bathroom in their suite and checked under the rim of the toilet bowl. She saw traces of vomit, and she felt her fears were confirmed...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Living in a Vicious Cycle of Guilt and Shame | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

...most part the essays are enjoyable--an honest and profound look at America, at human success and failure and at growing up. They portray an era and are perhaps more meaningful than the slew of backward-looking books that vomit up recent social history...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffleton, | Title: Updike's Memoirs Take Life Seriously | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

There are other ways to deal. My roommate reacted to the shock by swallowing a goodly portion of Absolut, which was a mistake from his point of view (which was mostly upside-down, over a vomit-filled trash can), but gave me the opportunity to hear the uninhibited ramblings of a highly intelligent, avidly political Slavic major who was shocked to his soul by the victory of two men like George Bush and Dan Quayle...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Post-Election Escapism | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...woman in a soiled yellow dress, was cooking breakfast for her husband and three children when she heard the sound of aircraft. The Iraqi warplanes started dropping bombs on Butia, the village in northern Iraq where she lived. "I felt something wrong in my eyes, and I started to vomit," she says. "We knew what it must be, so we all drank a lot of milk and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Rights: The Cries of the Kurds | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...Newark cops on the beat. The wandering camera and washed-out color give the syndicated show a home-movie look, and the plotless half hours are filled, realistically, with long stretches of small talk. But there are also silly interludes of outrageous comedy (a pair of cops cleaning up vomit in the backseat of their squad car try to figure out what the "little yellow things" are) and a rather smug assumption that anything the camera records, no matter how drably "real," is worth watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fact Vs. Fiction on Reality TV | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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