Word: eyelidded
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...election, then, becomes, a showdown with more than a presidency at a stake. Of course, Perrotta throws in hilarious subplots and side characters (like the bee who stings Mr. McAllister's eyelid) to keep the story from lagging but everything comes down to the election's final count. Who will win? Or rather, as Tracy puts it, who deserves to win? Or maybe, as Tami puts it, who cares...
...slight--usually 15 to 60 units, vs. the 3,000 required to kill somebody. In addition to smoothing worry lines, Botox is used to erase crow's feet and furrows between the eyebrows. While results are relatively short-lived (four to six months), any unintended side effects--a droopy eyelid, say--eventually go away too. This is good for doctors as well as patients. "By the time somebody consults a lawyer," says Dr. Monte Keen of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, "it's worn...
...life come to an abrupt end on Dec. 8, 1995, with the stroke that left him paralyzed. Though Bauby was dependent on hospital staff and machinery for all his bodily functions, his brain remained unscathed. He soon discovered that the only muscle still under his control was his left eyelid. By telegraphing a series of blinks, Bauby let his nurses know that his mind was alive and well inside its immobile frame. They responded by reciting a special alphabet to him with the understanding that Bauby would blink at letters he wanted written down. Repeating the process resulted in words...
...liken his paralysis to being "a working brain kept in a jar. " That was until the publication last week of his 137-page book, "Le scaphande et le papillion" ("The Diving Suit and The Butterfly), which the onetime chief editor for Elle wrote by using his still functioning left eyelid to blink out wor ds to an assistant. But for Bauby, his escape from the hated "jar" came too late. He died Sunday night in a hospital outside of Paris at the age of 44; the cause of death was not announced. It was an anticlimatic end to a life...
...parents may be forgiven for viewing their children as miracles, but none more so than Betsy and Leonard Jernigan Jr. One day when their baby Elizabeth was about four months old, her right eyelid began to weaken a bit; the pupil seemed slow to respond to light. Such small signs, and they came and went; she seemed happy and healthy, so her parents expected that the problem would clear up by itself...