Word: bowels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...limited intellect but vastly higher moral stature than the assorted connivers exploiting his plight. In contrast to royal marriages of the present generation, the King's bond with Queen Charlotte is presented as intensely companionable, albeit not monogamous. The primary villains are the doctors, one therapeutically obsessed with inspecting bowel movements, another with making the King sweat and vomit, a third with blistering his flesh, a fourth with humiliating him into submission. None does the least good. His problem is chemical imbalance, and his remission -- alas, only temporary -- results from the body's healing itself...
...Lozeau (Maxime Collin) lives in a Montreal hovel with his surpassingly strange family. Father (Roland Blouin) is a brute laborer; "wrinkles line his face and reveal nothing but the age that dug them." Mother (Ginette Reno) loves the boy, but she is obsessed with bowel movements as nature's prophylactic -- "Push, my love," she whispers urgently to the infant Leo, a captive princeling enthroned on a potty. His near mute sisters Nanette and Rita shuttle dully from fantasy to insanity, from home to the local asylum. His brother, musclebound Fernand (Yves Montmarquette), is so frail of spirit that...
...Jeff, asks why he won't talk seriously about his feelings. He answers, "Basically, I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them, and women sleep with men so they can talk with them." A nonwriting author of great reputation is described as "Henry James with bowel movements." Social gradations are precisely noted, and the , level of smart-alecky prose is satisfactorily high, although there are lapses. McInerney uses amuletic and quotidian in the same herniated sentence, and calls three different women "raccoon-eyed," which sounds like something Philip Marlowe said while ducking bullets...
...problem develops during toilet training: Heatherton says during this period, some people become obsessed with cleanliness and order, and begin to repress the pleasure received from bowel movements...
...month trial turned on the question of whether the Twitchells were guilty of "wanton and reckless conduct" in not seeking medical help for Robyn, who died in April 1986 of a bowel obstruction, after five days of illness. The parents, who had summoned a "spiritual healing" practitioner, maintained that their son had shown only intermittent flulike symptoms and seemed to be recovering just before taking a fatal turn. But medical experts testified that the child would probably have been feverish, vomiting and in obvious pain before his death. Had he been taken to a doctor, they asserted, the boy would...