Word: forearmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joseph Dipaoma, 58, of Bedford, N.Y., never saw the pinhead-size tick that bit him. But there was no mistaking the angry red rash that blossomed on his forearm. He had Lyme disease, which three weeks on antibiotics quickly cured. Still, five years later, he sometimes wonders if the infection is really gone. "I get a lot of aches and pains," says the part-time delicatessen worker. "In the back of my mind, there's this question: Could it be a residue of the Lyme? Or have I been standing behind the counter too long...
...flat-out devastation, see the French drama Ponette, Jacques Doillon's study of infant grief. From its poignant first image--of a four-year-old child (Victoire Thivisol) compulsively sucking her thumb, the only part of her forearm not in a cast after a crash that killed her mother--the film rarely leaves the wracked, haunted face of its fearless heroine. Many relatives think they are helping the girl: her aunt (Claire Nebout), who fills her with stories of God's craving for mommies; her young cousins, who try alternately teasing and cheering her; a boy at school who says...
...HELICOPTER CAME IN over the marketplace at noon one day last month. Machine-gun fire ripped from the sky, pounding into the dirt, ricocheting off roofs and sending hundreds of Hutu men, women and children scattering for cover under rickety stalls. Suzanne Nyahimana, 45, was hit almost immediately, her forearm shattered. Frantically rounding up her five children--her husband had been killed in fighting several months earlier--she fled with them from the northwestern Burundian village of Nyabitaka into the hills, eventually crossing the Rusizi River to a refugee camp in neighboring Zaire. "I will never go back," Nyahimana said...
...gave a first-hand account of life in a concentration camp, his family's death, being a dentist in Auschwitz, were he had to extract gold teeth from corpses. "We were no longer people in Auschwitz. We became numbers. [I was] number 141129," he said, pointing to his left forearm where the number was tattooed...
Viewers tuning in to Baghdad TV last September got a ghastly glimpse of the Iraqi government in action. First came a close-up of a severed human hand, then one of a man clutching the bloody stump of his forearm, a black cross branded on his forehead. The newscaster said the man had been punished for stealing a television...