Word: brained
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...Nero coming into town not on horseback but on foot, dragging a coffin, was an instant sensation that cued more than 50 Django films, all unrelated to the original. Its theme song, by composer Luis Bacalov, remains one of those melodies that worms its way into a listener's brain and, as I can testify, can't be extracted for weeks. The Corbucci film also inspired later generations of video hounds, including Quentin Tarantino, who appropriated the Django scene of banditos cutting off a preacher's ear for his film Reservoir Dogs. (The original went further: the poor...
...those who have faced her in business negotiations, possessed of a dogged determination. Divorced from Matthew Mellon of the American banking dynasty, with whom she has a daughter, she attributes her success to a combination of ambition and instinct. "My intuition is always spot-on," she insists, "but my brain doesn't always follow it, so I try to stop myself intellectualizing too much...
...office released a one-page document, approved by Benedict, that denounced the cutting off of food and water to patients in a vegetative state even if they would never regain consciousness. This reaffirmed John Paul's stance in 2004 during the battle over ending artificial feeding for the severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, who was later taken off her feeding tube and died...
...wish I could say I was surprised. In truth, Pats fans already knew that Belichick doesn't play by Marquis of Queensberry rules. This February former linebacker Ted Johnson alleged that Belichick made him practice even after he suffered a concussion and that today he has brain damage so severe that he can barely get out of bed. But in Boston those earlier revelations--like these new ones--haven't hurt Belichick's popularity a bit. And there's only one thing that could: losing...
...start of the road rage trial in October 2001, Simpson apparently had so much confidence in Galanter that he entered the Miami courtroom whistling, "If I Only Had a Brain." He has good reason to be impressed by Galanter. Simpson faced up to 16 years behind bars. But Galanter, 50, presented an interesting defense. Police had O.J.'s thumbprint on the pair of glasses worn by the man that Simpson allegedly cut off while driving his SUV in a Miami suburb. However, because the print was on the outside of the lens, Galanter argued Simpson hadn't grabbed the glasses...