Word: cranium
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...face of all of this pessimism, you'd have to have a skull made of titanium to resist becoming jaded. My own cranium lacking any metallic elements, I happily joined in all of the sarcastic remarks and the hooting at painstakingly scrawled letters. Eventually I was caught between guilt and disdain. On the one hand, I was guilty of complicity in this huge racket. On the other, the American people didn't deserve my respect; each day we were flooded with constituents' petty concerns and poorly articulated requests. Whiners, the lot of them...
Both men realized how things already made of iron could be brought into sculpture, thus extending the aesthetics of assemblage and the found object. To see Picasso's joining two tin half-spheres -- kitchen colanders -- to form the cranium of Head of a Woman, 1929-30, or Gonzalez's recycling what appears to be a pair of scythe blades as the wings of a creature midway between angel and praying mantis, is to witness plays of the dreaming, free-associating, punning mind that seem fundamental to modernism. Iron, in the form of objects that could be almost randomly brought together...
...head in the game, BC put its head into it--two heads into the net in particular. Back Marius Lund bumped in a cross shot at 97:22 (in the first overtime) and sealed the victory at 110:47 (second overtime), completing a corner kick with his cranium...
...degree cliff in training, and finally the American boxer stopping hundreds of punishing sounding blows with his forehead and chin and upper cheekbones. Apparently, Rocky thinks that masochistic training strengthens the bones in the human head to the extent that a steamroller running over the prepared cranium will cause only a slight scratch above the left eye. Warning: readers should not attempt this sort of thing at home, on their spouses, children, pets...
...hoary belief involves dinosaur stupidity: the hapless creatures died out because their bodies continued to grow bigger while their brains remained small. Indeed, cranium measurements seem to indicate that at least some species were not terribly cerebral: one type of brontosaurus, for example, weighed about 30 tons, and probably had only a half-pound brain. If the dinosaurs did indeed become progressively less intelligent, the theory goes, they would have lost the ability to adapt to changes in the environment...