Word: faints
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...computers, multimedia and the Internet. Sony's competitors weren't going to be just electronics companies like Matsushita (Panasonic) but computer firms like Intel, Microsoft and Compaq Computer. Back in Japan, where in 1995 only 1.8 million computers were wired to the Web , there was no more than a faint understanding of the revolution going on in the States...
Since Kirby Dick's Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist displays all of its subject's creative carpentry skills, it is not for the faint of stomach. (When the song The Hammer of Love starts playing, go out for popcorn.) But like the 1994 Crumb, this deadpan documentary transcends its sensational topic. Flanagan's artful self-mutilation, and especially his corrosively comic descriptions of it, amounted to a heroic decision to take the punishment that God or nature meted out to him into his own hands...
Tunnels can in some places be extremely hot, according to Lichten-"hot enough so that you could conceivably faint or get disoriented...
...didn't he--faint, that is? That was the question surrounding YASSER ARAFAT last week after an Egyptian official leaked word that the Palestinian leader had passed out during a contretemps with the Foreign Minister of Qatar while in Cairo. Arafat's office says no, but a Palestinian official, speaking to TIME, confirmed the blackout, saying Arafat's lips turned blue and his eyes rolled into the back of his head before a doctor came to revive him. The collapse occurred as Arafat tried to convince HAMAD BIN JASSIM that Qatar should cancel a Middle East economic conference to protest...
...private detectives turned it all over to police, and on March 28, 1979, at 9 a.m., homicide detective Chitwood knocked on Einhorn's door. Once inside, he headed straight for the locked closet. He pried it open with a crowbar and immediately smelled a "faint decaying smell, like a dead animal." Next he sprang the lock on the steamer trunk. The newspapers inside were dated August and September 1977. Under them was Styrofoam packing material. Chitwood scooped through it until he came to something he couldn't identify at first, and then it was clear. A hand. A human hand...