Maybe, as my colleagues in critical theory might tell me, my anxiety stems from a broader source: a culture obsessed with "good health", one bombarded with representations of illness and death.
On the one hand, bombarded by warnings about AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, adolescents are taught abstinence, the sole contraception method taught at one-third of all public schools across the country, according to a recent poll by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a private research organization.
I believe in responsible gun ownership, but when guns are as accessible as Swedish Fish and lollipops on inner city streets, and when movie theaters, elementary schools, high schools, university classrooms, and backyard barbecues become places on more than one occasion bombarded by gun violence, Americans need to embrace room for change.
Ideally, one would bombard 1-cell stage embryos, but these would fail to develop, and the incredibly robust permeability barrier prevents other approaches such as electroporation (R. E. Davis, personal communication).
More often, characters are ushered on stage to bombard one another with lumps of argument, or thrown into dystopian hells to expose the membrane of civilisation that separates us from our real, unattractive selves.
She's never really seen; Lily occupies the movie only as a force that permeates the lives of the Japanese junior high school kids who are fixated on her and bombard one another -- and the movie screen -- with instant messages about the effects she has on their lives.
One friend bombarded me with E-mail calling him a misogynist and a psychopath.
Mateen threw violent tantrums when angry and made racist and homophobic comments, according to Gilroy, who also said Mateen at one point bombarded him with 20 to 30 texts a day.
The ones being bombarded with online ads from cosmetic companies with a known reputation in the industry for messing up hundreds, even thousands, of faces up and down the country.
All day long, New Yorkers are bombarded by windows trying to sell them everything: on one side of the street, lizard handbags, on the other side, pet lizards.
