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...came to see through. When he returned to Cambridge, he started for the first time to listen to all of the words that flew at him, and he began to see that in his world of the mind only words have meaning: people surround themselves with words, people vomit words, people become words, and can be nothing else...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Esalen and Harvard: Looking at Life From Both Sides Now | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...Nauseous." Susie sat upright with a wild expression on her face and began to vomit into the paper bag. Again and again, she vomited, holding the bag over her nose and mouth...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: In the New Pastures of Heaven | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

...father owned a saloon that stank of liquor, vomit and urine. Her mother did the cooking there and never had time for reading bedtime stories. That is how Sculptress June Leaf, 39, chooses to remember her childhood on Chicago's West Side. With such a past, it is not surprising that her artistic heroes are Hogarth, Klee and Ensor, or that she has learned, from the hippies she says, "to see the kaleidoscopic side of life and the mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Carnival of Grotesques | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

...problem in the early part of the flight went unreported for several hours. Although the astronauts had been inoculated against the Hong Kong flu, Borman soon became ill with another variety that caused him to vomit and suffer diarrhea. Borman elected not to discuss his illness over the public communications channel. As a result, NASA's medical staff did not hear about his problem until Houston technicians finally played the tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VOYAGE: POETRY AND PERFECTION | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...gradations of color, he sacrificed some of the spontaneity and relaxation that Chopin's score invites. Weissenberg shrugs off the criticism that he is "an ice-cold interpreter, even an IBM machine," arguing that his emotionally objective approach is much sounder than that of pianists "who would nearly vomit on the keyboard to show that they are so sentimental and inspired. They have a sort of seasickness on stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: Rescued from Limbo | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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