Word: bone
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...arch can be felt by touching the back). In the normal, healthy back, the facets of one vertebra line up precisely with those of adjoining vertebrae, creating smoothly functioning facet joints. But sometimes a facet dislocates; all it may take is a sudden twist or bend. The bone may begin to press on the tiny nerves that run to it from the spinal cord. Like a herniated disc, facet-joint syndrome can be accompanied by severe pain...
...such tactics some clinics are able to return as many as 65% of back sufferers to productive, if not pain-free, lives. Robert Sumpter, 45, of Modesto, Calif., sought out Hosobuchi after four back operations and a bout with the bone infection osteo myelitis that left him in such great pain that he required constant medication with narcotics. At first, Sumpter had to use the transmitter four times a day. Now he resorts to it only once daily. He also has resumed a life-style that he had totally abandoned because of his addiction. Says he, with undisguised relief...
Physical punishment and violence was a way of life in the prison. Life was cheap, after all, and a conspiracy of silence spread from within the prison walls to the Arkansas borders. But when a prisoner couldn't be controlled by beatings or chainings or bone-crushing labor in the flat fertile prison fields, the trusties used "The Tucker Telephone." They would take the offending prisoner to the infirmary, strip him and attack electrodes to his big toe and penis, which were wired to an old-fashioned rural telephone. By cranking the handle, the "operator" discharged six volts through...
Sprinkled through Easyriders are advertisements for a dazzling array of products tied to the motorcycle lifestyle. There are "macho suspenders in Harley colors," and a three-record set of "War Songs of the Third Reich." You can order a handcrafted, bone china beer mug in the shape of a human skull, skull, or a part of your motorcycle plated in gold, or an eight-track tape that will teach you how to "make your dog a real man-stopper...
...best, Walter Hill strips familiar movie forms of their cultural and nostalgic crustations, polishing them down to their existential bone and gristle. Like Hemingway's, his laconic style can be come mannered to the point of self-parody, as it was in The Driver. But when he is good, as he was in the prizefighting film Hard Times, or last year's gang-war epic The Warriors, there is a hard purposefulness about his work that avoids macho sentimentality and easy moralizing. He is at the top of his form in The Long Riders...