Word: hypochondriac
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...resist him? Mouth agape, face slapped between his hands, Culkin's visage is America's home-sweet-home version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, with the angst pasteurized. In the just-released My Girl, a story about a motherless, hypochondriac tomboy and her best friend Thomas J. (Culkin), he does the unspeakable for a preadolescent (has his first screen kiss) and the unthinkable for a budding megastar (dies well before the end). "It was easy," says Mack. "I just pretended I was sleeping." It could turn out to be the most talked-about movie death since a hunter shot...
...GIRL. Mack is back, but this time he's not home alone. He's an allergy- prone 11-year-old whose best friend, Vada (Anna Chlumsky), is a hypochondriac who lives in a funeral parlor. Dan Aykroyd, Vada's widowed, mortician father, learns about love and the living from his makeup artist, Jamie Lee Curtis. Directed by Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin), this sweet saga is both hilarious and heartrending. Don't forget the Kleenex...
...when I'm in a mellow mood, I like to think that perhaps I'm communing with nature every time I answer her call. If you can't tell, a few measly bugs in the bathroom is not a good thing for a neurotic disease-fearing/Woody Allen-type hypochondriac like...
...small southern town of Rhymers Creek, the book has as its protagonist Lila Mae Bower Pietrowsky. Lila Mae is well-intentioned, a good Christian woman who believes she is leading her disordered life as best she can. Her husband has left her. Her mother is a meddling hypochondriac. Wellsley Coe, whom Lila Mae has admired since high school, has insulted her virtue by asking her to have sex with him. And she is shocked and disappointed to discover that half the staff in the convalescent home where she works is homosexual...
...picture of Mencken, albeit an often self-contradictory one, does emerge in the pages of this record of his life from 1930 to 1948. Mencken, as he wrote in this most private of forums, was a husband proud of his solicitousness and a hypochondriac; a wealthy man obsessed by money; a writer intrigued by the failings of his colleagues and competitors...