Word: appendix
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...were stills from Hitch-cock's Psycho, photos from the performers' family albums, and snaps of familiar landmarks. Rainer included "Trio A" from The Mind is a Muscle along with references from other earlier works--a red ball, books, a gift, mattresses. (She conveniently schematizes these motifs in an appendix, "Etymology of objects, configurations and characters...
...Louis, to explain the damp fascinations of caving ("spelunking" seems to be a word not much used by cavers). Their book is a splendid armchair challenge, properly made, properly obsessive. For non-cavers who read it, the sensation of being trapped in Mother Earth's vermiform appendix is persuasively real, and the impulse to run gasping into the open air is strong...
...that the Soviets would respect their own laws enough for cogent arguments by foreign colleagues to induce them to reconsider the harsh sentences meted out to the 19 Jewish prisoners. The U.S. lawyers first studied Soviet law. For months they prepared defense briefs, excerpts of which form an appendix to the book, detailing how, in each of the cases, convictions had been obtained in flagrant violation of the Soviets' own statutes. The lawyers even journeyed to Moscow and presented their briefs to the Soviet procurator-general-one Roman Rudenko, who had been, coincidentally, Taylor's Soviet counterpart...
...tests. Only when qualified doctors cannot find a medical reason for the symptoms will an exorcist be called in to expel the spirit. Martin describes the procedure and ceremony carefully, even to the point of printing the text spoken by attending priests, the Roman Ritual of Exorcism, as an appendix...
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