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...what his imitators could never do, and why there are no successful Pollock forgeries; they always end up spaghetti, looking like whereas vomit, or Pollock-in onyx, or his best work, at any rate-had an almost preternatural control over the total effect of those skeins and receding depths of paint. In them, the light is always right. Nor are they absolutely spontaneous: he would often retouch the drip with a brush. So one is obliged to speak of Pollock in terms of a perfected visual taste, analogous to natural pitch in music-a far cry, indeed, from the familiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An American Legend in Paris | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...college and then learns a type of food abuse. "Some girls come to college totally unequipped to deal with sharing a bedroom with a roommate and her boyfriend, and for solace they turn to food," she says. "In large dorms it is extremely easy to learn how to vomit or use laxatives because you see people around you doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Living to Eat | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...Barbarella Fonda as his wife and Jon Voight as a crippled vet, everyone is too damn earnest. The depth of the emotional struggles in the movie makes Ordinary People look like a model of complexity. And when Dern bares his buns for that catharsis/baptism, you want to vomit. Any ninth-grader could have written that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ultimate in Coffee Table Culture | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...swaying like pendulums. This was followed by Whispers of the Wolf ("Boy, sounds really scary, eh, kids!" howled the Count), which turned out to be an essay in abject despair by Ingmar Bergman, complete with a dwarf, camera compositions like geometry proofs and racked dialogue like "Life makes me vomit" - all of it rendered in subtitles that were almost obscured by dirt in the corner of the projector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Messages from Melonville | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...ache, usually persistent, may radiate down the left shoulder and arm, and perhaps also affect the neck, jaw or back. The victim may become extremely short of breath, break into a cold sweat, feel weak and nauseated and possibly vomit. Along with these signs and symptoms, there may be palpitations. The face can turn a ghastly gray, and the patient may experience anxiety, even a sense of impending doom. Says Cardiologist Marshall Franklin of San Diego's Clairemont Community Hospital: "It is like nothing the patient has ever known before, a feeling that something cataclysmic is happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: When a Heart Attack Hits ... | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

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