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  • "The house was getting kind of run-down," says Jason Barnett, who ran the record label Paroxysm out of the house in the early '00s.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2009

  • Hardwood Paroxysm takes a deeper look at the awfulness of the Cleveland Cavaliers.

    Keeping their heads up, despite losing streak Michael Lee 2011

  • Danny Chau analyzes the mental challenges that John Wall is facing this season Hardwood Paroxysm.

    Nick Young says he needs to be more vocal Michael Lee 2011

  • Oh and "Paroxysm of Fredliness" Thanks, I always wondered what the clinical description was for the condition of which I suffer.

    Itineraries and Agendas: Bicycles at Work and Play BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • A Paroxysm of Sexism, Misogyny and Hate -- eriposte at Left Coaster: Personally, I expected a fair amount of hatred from the traditional media and conservative media against Sen. Clinton in this primary although there are times when Fox News seemed to have better coverage of her than MSNBC and CNN.

    Hot Misogyny Links: Weeping for Hillary/Woman-Hating America 2008

  • Paroxysm gripped Mount Vesuvius at exactly the right time.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • "Paroxysm of self-revelation" is one of the better phrases I have ever heard.

    YAM 2006

  • Building -- In speaking of the want of safety, the Committee only mean to express an opinion, that when two or more insane persons, from the want of room are lodged together in one cell, the life of the weaker must be somewhat endangered by the stronger, who in a high Paroxysm of insanity might strangle him in his sleep, or otherwise destroy him.

    A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 Various

  • He rolled off the Sofa and tossed about on a $1,200 Rug in a Paroxysm of

    More Fables George Ade 1905

  • Paroxysm followed paroxysm with fearful violence, and these outbreaks were responded to by the mother with scarcely less intensity.

    Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency. 1852

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