Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student, Margaret M. Cimino '87, also made an important step towards recovery yesterday when she moved her left arm and right elbow for the first time since the accident, said the spokesman, Kelly Anthony...
...story opens, things do not look bright for May Alto. Harry, a second husband with the boyish charm and mental age of a 14-year-old, has just left her for "...this girl." Subsisting on codeine and Seconal, she is nursing an arm slashed in a mugging for $12 and a cheap tape recorder. She is the sole supporter of three children going through various phases of adolescent trauma. A ghostwriter, May writes books to order, bringing glory to a slew of semi-literate literary celebrities in return for modest cash rewards. To keep herself entertained, she intertwines the stories...
...nothing impressed Thompson like the arm. It was black and clad in green fatigues. Loren Jenkins of the Washington Post saw it in a garbage can outside his hotel. "My God," he yelled, "look at that." It turned out to be a prosthesis, apparently planted by a prankish MP, who splattered it with ketchup for dramatic effect. "We hung Goebbels for jokes like that," declared Thompson. He demanded an explanation. An Army public affairs officer told him, with a straight face: "Sir, that's our disarmament policy...
Through this underworld Pacino stalks like a panther. He carries memories of earlier performances (the bantam bombast of Dog Day Afternoon, the nervous belt tugging from American Buffalo, the crook'd arm from his Broadway Richard III), but creates his freshest character in years. There is a poetry to his psychosis that makes Tony a figure of rank awe, and the rhythm of that poetry is Pacino's. Most of the large cast is fine; Michelle Pfeiffer is better. The cool, druggy Wasp woman who does not fit into Tony's world, Pfeiffer's Elvira...
...much blood in him?" The injured in Lawrence, Kans., smiled bravely at their injuries. The young actress who was supposed to be suffering from radiation sickness smiled bravely at the student who comforted her, and he smiled bravely back. On a cot in Cambodia lay a young man whose arm had just been amputated, and next to him lay his infant daughter whose arm had also been amputated. Neither of them smiled. They both looked numb. The stump of the man's arm kept twitching uncontrollably. At the end of The Day After, a statement said that a real...