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Despite its ironic detachment, the film draws you into its heroine's sickly state: Breathing oxygen from a canister inside a high-tech igloo, she dwindles to nearly nothing, the modern incarnation of the Incredible Shrinking Man.
"Fernanda Montenegro: 'Why is the sickly girl holding my Oscar?
The colors are off, giving him a sickly look, and the narration all but mocks his delivery of his neo-Nike anti-drug slogan: "Just Don't Do It."
His wife is stupid, and his children are sickly.
In 1981, Reagan cut taxes to spur consumption and revive a sickly economy.