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He also falls in love with a married woman, Mona, the embodiment of Sex--the kind of woman who sends men into spasms of uncontrollable lust, such that they'd kill their good buddies or drink themselves into an early grave.
Perhaps the best backhanded compliment is provided by another New York Times review, this one from the daily paper: Richard Kluger writes that the book has "only occasional spasms of the immodesty that almost by definition infects all who venture into autobiography."
A policeman suffers tension-caused muscle spasms his wife relieves by massage.
It seems to me that the political correctness movement is a natural descendant of the recurrent spasms of prudery that have assaulted our language over the centuries.
The spasms of self-destruction.