"Every cyclist after that thought that they needed to dope to win and that caused a sort of lethargy.
It had been found, for instance, that the parkinsonian brain was low in dopamine, and that giving a dopamine precursor, L-dopa, could alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease; while tranquillizers, introduced in the early nineteen-fifties, could depress dopamine and cause a sort of chemical parkinsonism.
Any problem with a purchase at all — even a delay of a few seconds or holding up a line while you are fooling around with a newfangled card — can cause a sort of stigma for the purchaser.
Through living in Austin, it's been commonplace that I see whatever bands I want to on their stops through the Lone Star State, causing a sort of superiority among the other ACL goers.
I mean, at one point this involved tracing the whole air-con system out back to where it exits through a vent in the building, and talking to the builders on a nearby building site that happen to be working there, asking them sincerely if their work could possibly be causing a sort of shit-cum-corpse smell to waft up through the system onto our desk, where we could smell it.
However, they may have also played a special role in speciation as physiological isolating mechanisms, causing a sort of hybrid dysgenesis in crosses between incipient species.
They shut down the original Lascaux Cave in 1963 because the carbon monoxide emitted by thousands of daily visitors was causing "green and white disease"–a sort of limestone version of gingivitis to form on the animal paintings.
It bears repeating that it's one of the very greatest of war films, yet ever since I first saw it, as a teen-ager, it has caused me a sort of moral discomfort that has lasted through every subsequent viewing, including the most recent one, this week.
