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...Kelly said her knuckles and arm hurt, and the next day was taken to the doctor. According to the family, he thought that some cartwheels she did earlier in the week might have caused the arm pain. As for her other symptoms, the doctor suspected strep throat and an ear infection; he took a throat culture and prescribed antibiotics. Reassured, the Ahrendts left for a camping trip in upstate New York, near Lake George...
Again, I inched up towards the light, and when the pretty green light changed to the pretty red light my snarling friend (or was it his car?) screeched his tires in my ear and took off., only to land behind a carcinogenic bus. I noticed with glee that his T-tops were off as he dealt with the fumes that enveloped his windshield...
...viscera on some specimens), even our old, prematurely dark-haired President, a man known as the Great Communicator, joined the crowd and pumped iron. In the '90s we are led by a young, prematurely gray-haired fellow who jogs, yes, but most days turns a deaf ear to those who would slow his knife and fork. Call him the Great Sweet Potater...
...shaping their children's skulls: they liked to flatten them (although this may have simply been the inadvertent result of strapping babies to cradle boards) or squeeze them into a cone. Some Mayanists speculate that the conehead effect was the result of trying to approximate the shape of an ear of corn...
...recall a more causative day and spark the fire of revolution once again. I am so fucking mad'...and in her fury she jumped two stories and tore her jeans in all the right places. All the girls screamed and told her she looked really cool." Bernhard's precise ear for the nuances of the language of popular culture works here to almost poetic effect. There are few writers who could put a phrase like "causative day" into a characters' mouth without delivering her up for the reader's contempt. Bernhard retains a sense of empathy, ridiculing the words' inherent...