Word: eyelids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chunky owner of the voice, Edwin L. Baron, "master hypnotist," padded softly among the entranced women. When an eyelid fluttered, he put his hand on the sleeper's forehead, murmuring his message again. "Now I will count to three and you will wake up," he said briskly. With yawns and stretches, they woke. The lesson had lasted half an hour...
...well Joplin, Mo. smelter worker, abandoned the boy and his seven brothers & sisters in a deserted mine cave. After the authorities discovered them there, most of them found foster parents, but only "the county" would take William, a small, ugly child with a deformed right eyelid. William bit like a caged wildcat at the institutional hand that...
Posthumous portraits are among the toughest commissions artists get. Today they work from photographs of the subject, but posed photos are apt to miss the revealing gesture or the characteristic turn of lip, nostril or eyelid that painters look for. El Greco, with only a rigid mask for a starting point, made a virtue of his difficulty. Cardinal Tavera's imagined hand, with its long tapering fingers, and his dark, luminous, meditative eyes perhaps have more of the painter himself than of the cardinal about them; they reappear in most of El Greco's works. But they intensify...
...agreed to the terms he had worked out, the U.S. court of claims would award them between $31 million and $32 million-bigger judgments than the court has ever awarded against the Government. He paused, faced his audience with a look of pardonable expectancy. Not an Indian flickered an eyelid. An interpreter repeated the statement. Dead silence still reigned...
...stayed conscious all night although he had a shattered pelvic bone, half a dozen broken ribs and a broken leg; one eyelid had virtually been torn away. Gasoline dripped steadily. He called reassurance to the living (seven were dead), sent some of the walking injured for help, and yelled warnings against lighting matches. When he got to a hospital, nine hours after the crash, he felt a familiar languor-what he calls the "warm, soft sensation of death...