cathartic = 'experiencing catharsis' PLUS free balonus!

[Jonathan Lighter]

I
CNN: "Eight years after her injury, Markhbein is still feeling cathartic
when painting."


II
On public radio the other evening: a scientific report finds that eating
chocolate can be "body-mass-index-neutral."

In ordinary terms, that seems to mean, essentially, "non-fattening," a word
that none of the two or three people inviolved in the story deigned to use.

JL



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