Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spanish-language dailies, with a combined circulation of 325,000. There is a newspaper war of sorts in New York City, home to both the venerable El Diario/La Prensa (circ. 70,000) and the upstart Noticias del Mundo (circ. 57,000), owned by the publishing arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. In Los Angeles, La Opinion (60,000) competes against Noticias' West Coast edition (30,000). The Midwest is served by Chicago's El Manana Daily (45,000). Miami's Diario Las Americas, founded in 1953, finds its biggest challenger in the Miami Herald, which publishes...
...Ward just finished filming Fortress, an Australian survivalist epic for HBO in which she plays a school marm who is kidnaped and imprisoned along with nine of her charges. "It's Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Lord of the Flies," says Ward, who reports that while mommy was bearing arms on the set, daddy had the arm-cradling duty in the nursery. "Bryan was the chief bottle washer and nappy changer," she says. Now Brown is shooting a spy flick called F-X in New York City, and Ward is taking her turn at changing the baby's, "uh, disposables...
...trained eye is still among the most reliable tools. Sex, for instance, can be identified by the shape of the intact pelvis: generally, a woman's has a wider opening to permit childbirth. Height can be calculated, within an inch or two, from the lengths of the major arm or leg bones. Race can be indicated by the texture of the hair or from certain features of the skull, among them the shape of the eye sockets and the spacing of the nasal apertures...
...addition, "bone responds to what we do," says Anthropologist Stephanie Damadio of the Smithsonian Institution. A clarinetist's jaw will sometimes suggest his profession or a waitress's developed arm strength may be evident in the bone...
...movie theaters to become a hit of totally unexpected proportions, earning a whopping $57 million during its first two weeks. (Only Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Return of the Jedi started better.) With a muzzle velocity like that, the picture is a shot in the arm to almost everyone in it, certainly including Julia Nickson, 26, the Vietnamese agent who falls in love with Sylvester Stallone. She was a $50-an-hour model in Hawaii when Stallone cast her. Born in Singapore to an English father and Chinese mother, Nickson had done a little acting: two small...