Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing with a drink in your hand and boredom on the brain in a ballroom. A man with large ears comes up to you, shakes your hand, and in a British accent introduces himself as Charles, Prince of Wales...
...chaos, the principal victims, as ever, have been civilians. Relief officials estimated that the 44 tons of food that reached Wau just before further shipments were cut off would soon run out. In the absence of fresh supplies, some weakened children were already said to have developed brain damage from malnutrition. At Narus, on the Kenyan border, ten children a day were dying of measles and malnutrition. "A lot of the children were as + bad as anything I've ever seen," said Andrew Warren, a World Concern employee who recently returned from the camp, "even worse than in Ethiopia...
...haunting in its outcome: perfect Hemingway. And of course, there is the water. Doctoral theses have been fished from all the waters and fluids in Hemingway -- lake water and trout stream and Gulf Stream and the rain after Caporetto and the endless washes of alcohol refracting in his brain. His style was a stream with the stones of nouns in it and a surface of prepositional ripples. Ford Madox Ford wrote that a Hemingway page "has the effect of a brook-bottom into which you look down through the flowing water. The words form a tesselation, each in order beside...
Manhunter, based on Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, is a police procedural with some smart new fangles. The FBI uses all the sleuthing techniques of the computer age, yet its most sophisticated device is Will's brain, trancing itself into the psycho's psyche. Will is the typical tough-cop hero -- a loner whose awareness of his own checked rages makes him see the killer as his evil twin -- but he is also a decent family man; a supermarket chat with his son, about the bad things bad men do to people, is one of the film's surprise highlights...
When unearthed in 1861 from a German quarry, Archaeopteryx seemed an ideal argument for the then new theories of evolution. Its reptilian brain and scaly head, combined with an avian wishbone and cloak of feathers, led many scientists to hail it as a missing link between reptiles and birds. But Protoavis has even more birdlike features than its younger cousin, Chatterjee believes. While both species have wishbones and forelimbs elongated into wings, he points out, the older fossil also has a bird's wide eye sockets, a large braincase and a breastbone designed to anchor muscles used in flight. Tiny...