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Wiltshire starts with a review of Johnson's own medical history: juvenile scrofula, poor vision in one eye, the famous “tics and gesticulations,” gout, asthma, a stroke with transient aphasia, and finally “dropsy” with death due to arteriosclerotic heart disease with congestive failure.
One of the annoying tics of newspaper coverage of jury awards is the tendency to not cover the final money judgement with the same vigor as the initial sum.
Flanagan concluded, "[Tourette's sufferers] have motor control over these tics, and these movements look normal and have all the same sort of response we would expect to see in voluntary movement."
Bell may have been one of the more sparkling of the New York intellectuals in his heyday; and he was also, of course, a writer for Henry Luce's Fortune in the '50s (and has even retained some Time-ese tics, such as referring to Plato in a footnote as "the famed Greek philosopher").
Newsweek 's dubious list of recent home schoolees: Jessica DuBroff, the 7-year-old pilot whose plane crashed; Rebecca Sealfon, the national spelling bee champion with bizarre social tics; and Hanson, the teen-idol pop group with great hair.