Word: armfuls
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...photo of a bird flying past co-star Tippi Hedren. Despite the apparent tranquility of René Magritte's The Deep Waters, the proportionally larger-than-life bird resting next to a clothed statue of a woman is as menacing as the crow perched on Hedren's arm in another Halsman photo. The effect of all these juxtapositions is eerie: instead of lessening the impact of Hitchcock's imagery by dissecting and explaining it, they reinforce the effect he was striving to accomplish. So visitors exiting the museum should beware of the pigeons on Place Georges Pompidou. Just as Hitchcock...
Alberts is the president of the National Academy of Sciences and chair of the National Research Council, the principal operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering...
Bright’s car hit sand and flipped while he was driving Tuesday in the northwestern Namibian state of Khorixas. He suffered lacerations to the head, right arm and left hand in the accident...
...still a surgical procedure, which raises the possibility that something will go wrong, and George W. Bush will have to find himself a new chief adviser/energy czar/congressional arm-twister/Senate tiebreaker/rock on which his White House is built/most invaluable vice president in history. Cheney works longer hours than his boss, he sits in when Bush meets world leaders, and his appearance last week at an Orlando fund-raiser June 23 brought in $2.5 million for the GOP. And there's only...
...most of us thrill-seeking Americans - especially the kiddies - scamper away gleefully to comply. People love roller-coasters for the same reason some toddlers giggle happily when their fathers swing them around by an arm and a leg: Behind the dizzying thrills there's a full expectation of being safely returned, flushed and panting, to their mothers' arms. As Ann Brown, chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, put it at a recent hearing on roller coaster safety, "Thrill rides are supposed to give people the illusion of danger - not actually put people at risk...