Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roughly 100 volts for seven seconds (electric chairs employ a seven-ampere current at 50,000 volts). The resulting convulsion lasts less than a minute. The patient is protected by both muscle-relaxant drugs and anesthesia against one of shock treatment's early hazards: the possibility of arm or leg fractures. The patient experiences loss of recent memory when he regains consciousness, but memory returns quickly to all but elderly patients...
...privileges of campaign fund-raisers is the chance to bask in the reflected glory of a successful candidate. Even so, on the night of George McGovern's nomination in Miami Beach, his national finance chairman, Henry Kimelman, seemed to be doing much more than mere basking. With his arm wrapped around McGovern's wife Eleanor, Kimelman flashed enough winning smiles and V signs at the TV cameras to have been the candidate himself. Gary Grant, with whom the darkly handsome Kimelman has occasionally been compared, might call the scene one in which a supporting actor makes his move...
...Stones hit the stage, and thinking became instinct. I had an aisle with four others, and we'd immediately made friends with the first layer of people in the aisle: they became a civilian buffer zone. There was no need to push them, just brace an arm or a foot on the stage, and hold your ground. Because there was no pushing, only the jostling of 100 people, packed in a space for 20, trying to get some air. There was friendly camaraderie all the way around, and I was happy because I could see the show...
...through the backstage area with a case of the dry heaves from the heat in front of the stage; the Jagger-Richard duets; quick glances around the Garden, with the balcony looking like another, calmer, world removed from the chaos downstairs; a rear stage view, with Chip Monck's arm slashes cueing the crew in the split second of a chord change...
...also includes social comment, as in Sam Stone, a song about a veteran returning from "the conflict overseas with a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back." The chorus is a quasi lullaby from a child's perspective: "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes . . ." Another song tells of a man killed in a car accident because he had covered his windshield with flag decals: "Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore/They're already overcrowded from your dirty little...