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Of course, I was a sickly child, and one who wrote all the time.
In 1981, Reagan cut taxes to spur consumption and revive a sickly economy.
The very title of the work is tinged with regret, since its protagonist is presented to us not as lighthearted Clarissa but as the older Dalloway's somewhat shrinking, sickly missus.
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.
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."