Word: vomitous
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Cassavetes is determined to present here an epic chase of lost opportunities, and in his celebration of friendship, he squeezes the last drop out of all the old good-time virtues. The beginning of the film delights in physicality. There is a long vomit sequence that, for all its sordidness, perfectly expresses the emotions at the end of a two-day drunk. Vomiting is Cassavetes' simple but apt metaphor for twenty years of marriage suddenly become twenty years too much...
...Jewish word for peace? Why don't you two move up a step and I'll get you guys talking in a church with the Jewish word for peace in the picture. And could you move apart a bit, right that's good." Snap. This time your desire to vomit passes quicker and you want to kick the guy's camera right into his face. But then it sickeningly dawns on you that the only difference between you and him is that you're younger and know the tune to go along with the words...
...Eysenck offers a fascinating discussion of how certain depressant or stimulant drugs can be used to make a patient feel sick whenever he commits a specific antisocial act. "Given the time and resources," adds Psychologist Barry F. Singer, "a behavior-therapy program could make a bank robber want to vomit every time he saw a bank, could make an armed robber shudder every time...
...received at the box-offices of theatres running Ryan's Daughter. Until such a plan can be put into effect. I think all production and exhibition should be stopped. I honestly do. TV especially. Then in about ten years, or however long it takes for the American public to vomit up the last trace of the nonsensical sentimental myths Hollywood keeps pushing down its throat, Ryan's Daughter can reopen to audiences which will laugh it off the screen. Mass laughter is the only fit answer to such a retrograde monstrosity...
...signs of human decay are everywhere in the welfare hotels of New York; they contaminate the very air. At the Hamilton Hotel on Manhattan's West Side, junkies, prostitutes and gaunt young toughs haunt the vomit-stained hallways in search of a fix or their next mugging victim. Though classified as "temporary" by the Department...