Word: brained
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...with a predatory smile. As the camera moves in on him, an air bubble escapes. Nice frisson. And there's one shot that sent people at a critics' screening out of their seats. We'll just say it's a tribute to that old Z-movie classic The Brain That Wouldn...
...Suddenly you're asked to stop looking at specifics - I mean, I write about saltshakers and knives and forks - and talk like a politician," Collins says. "You're asked to leave right side of brain and live in left side...
...easy as simply asking patients to take pills before bed instead of first thing in the morning, because during sleep we have a low heart rate and blood pressure. If you lower your blood pressure too much during the night, you risk reducing blood supply to the brain, and that can be harmful...
...determining who gets organs. Frank Clemenshaw, 22, and Deborah Walters, 33, the Michigan couple who donated their baby's heart to Jesse, admitted they had been moved to do so by televised reports on Jesse and his parents. ''Our baby could not live,'' said Walters, whose son was brain-dead at birth. ''We'd seen their plea on TV, and we figured that if our baby could help them, then it would not be a total loss.'' But what television had failed to reveal was that an infant in Louisville had been waiting even longer for a heart. The parents...
...nuances are left to the civilians. Marine Private First Class Ernest Gonzalez speaks of the icy hell of Chosin: ''Word was passed to kill all enemy wounded. I found one Chinese curled up, lying facedown. He had a head wound shaped like a perfect pie-cut that exposed his brain. I fired into his midriff. He turned slowly and looked at me as if saying, 'Why must you make me suffer more?' Although it remained a common practice on both sides, I never again killed another wounded Chinese soldier.'' An even greater enemy than the Chinese was the demoralizing cold...