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When the X-ray machine was introduced in 1896, it was as if Hamlet's desire that "this too too solid flesh would melt" had become eerie reality. Public and physicians alike went wild. Gentlemen bought X-ray photographs of objects concealed in boxes, and fashionable ladies had X-ray portraits taken of themselves as gifts for friends and lovers. But it was physicians who were most intoxicated with the new device's possibilities. Without manual probing, they could now evaluate the extent of bone fractures and precisely locate where foreign bodies were lodged in tissues...
...thought that grips the playgoer's imagination as he views the courtroom is that apart from the presiding officer, John A. Sutler (Paul David Richards), and Sheriff McKinstry (Bob Ari), most of the people present can only be there through having eaten human flesh...
...finished, exhausted. "Want to party with these pills?" she asked emptily, finally looking up; all her spark departed, sucked back into a syringe, leaving only white, wooden flesh, hanging from her bones and that whole juggernaut of woman so soft and lucid like all the arable nature was now dampened with that phenobarbital glaze...
USUALLY, ONLY the photographs are true. Usually, the words and numbers--telling us of the hundreds of millions who would die, and of the smoking, charred rubble and flesh that would remain--seem more like lurid black humor than objective reporting. Or worse, the truth of nuclear war gets omitted completely--it is a truth too sensational to be believed, too obscene to be printed...
...Gabors combined. Mom doesn't like Nancy because Nancy's Dad, long deceased, was once an armed robber. But Mom will fork over the hundred grand if Nancy agrees to stay away from Michael for ever. The pact is sealed, and Nancy gets some new flesh to go with her stitches. With the help of a shrink, she even man ages to keep her head while losing her face. That would be that, but ... Enter "the promise." Earlier in the film, Michael had given Nancy a vow: "I promise I'll never say goodbye...