Word: forearms
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...weeks ago, police officers appeared at the Long Island, N.Y., home of Cathy Ann Marchese-Collins' parents to tell them that her sister's thigh and forearm had been identified from the World Trade Center rubble. It was the first of Laura Ann Marchese's remains to be found, and the end of Cathy's flickering hope that her baby sister, 35, had somehow escaped from the 102nd floor of the north tower, that she might, as Cathy liked to fantasize, have "met this cute guy on the elevator down and locked eyes and run off to Fiji." Stricken, Marchese...
...years of on-set wardrobe changes. His assistant hands him a fresh shirt?navy blue printed with a herd of fierce, red, glaring bulls. "Ever had horse meat?" he asks as the waitress delivers a plate of blood red sashimi. He clenches a fist and then grips his tensed forearm, adopting the tone of an older, more experienced brother. "It makes you strong...
...restore basic function to his left arm, Holgersen uses the Freehand System, a device that restores the ability to grasp, hold and release objects. During a seven-hour operation, surgeons at Denmark's National Hospital made incisions in Holgersen's upper left arm, forearm and chest. Eight flexible cuff electrodes, each about the size of a small coin, were attached to the muscles in his arm and hand that control grasping. These electrodes were then connected by ultrathin wires to a stimulator - a kind of pacemaker for the nervous system - implanted in his chest. The stimulator was in turn linked...
...walk in a bar and have someone say, 'Sorry about Tara.' Oh, man." He also promises never to try to act or move to L.A., where he grew up. In fact, he's got a post-9/11 red-white-and-blue tattoo that says nyc on his forearm below a cross and a Corvette logo, a tribute to his car-salesman dad. Though he's a practicing Roman Catholic, he is not, as rumor has it, a born-again Christian, as evidenced by his cursing, drinking and being friends with Jimmy Kimmel...
...faster than anybody who can write better." In the film game, To is the embodiment of that maxim. He makes quality pictures in quantity. He drives himself hard and his staff nuts; 24/7 is a normal work week at Milkyway. He suffered a severe burn on his right forearm while making Fulltime Killer, but kept on shooting. His editors have stayed in the cutting room 10 days and nights straight to get a movie in theaters on time. It's all about the work ethic?and the work passion. "I'm not a good man, but I like what...