He had been on a hunger strike, and was being force-fed.
Official efforts to focus attention on preparations left them thinking the city that never sleeps was being force-fed Ambien.
Meanwhile, the trial of Saddam Hussein on charges of genocide resumed; the former dictator was being force-fed after spending the past two weeks on hunger strike.
Seeing it onstage you can lean into the material and let it seduce you; on screen I felt I was being force-fed misery, cruelty, heroism, panting young love and blustery, flag-waving emotionalism.
He had been on hunger strike for 114 days and, reduced to a skeletal wreck, was being force-fed by doctors after being strapped to a hospital bed in Madrid.
"I wouldn't have expressed it this way at the time, but I think I was being force-fed what was meant to be my Scottish identity and I reacted against that.
Scottish reformism was being forced underground.
Nothing, though, was being forced upon the prose.
And yet here he was, being forced to defend it.
In effect, New York was being forced to stay indoors.
