Word: foreheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...definitely cut like the mouth on a Roman statue. Whatever her eyes had seen before the first blow struck, they were closed now and could mirror nothing. Her face was not distorted at all; it was in remarkable repose considering how she died. But the wounds on her forehead and cheeks were too numerous and too gaudy, like the wounds of St. Sebastian in the cheap plaster statues seen in the churches of little Italian towns. Marilyn's slayer was an extravagant slayer, wasteful of blows...
Above them all stood a tall, blond young man in a double-breasted tan gabardine suit. His handsome, strong-jawed face was drawn and his blue eyes glittered; for a few seconds he gnawed nervously on a thumbnail, and bright sweat covered his high forehead. He was speaking softly, but with an urgency that seemed to tense every muscle of his body...
...anything but standardized. One who stopped M. Roger Barrault near the town of Lavoux had brilliant eyes, an enormous mustache, wore rubbers and spoke Latin. Another asked M. Pierre Lucas, a Breton baker, for a light. He was bearded and had a single eye in the middle of his forehead. M. Lucas could not remember what language he spoke...
Olive Burton then placed her hands on the woman's forehead, George Burton stood behind, firmly gripping her shoulders, Edwards took her hands. All three closed their eyes. This was the crucial moment-what Edwards calls "attunement." "We get in tune with the spirit people. They receive information that we can give them, and they direct the healing." When it was over. Healer Edwards advised the woman's husband: "No reason why she shouldn't get better. Keep in touch with me. Look after her." No fee is asked, but at the door is a plate...
...laughter did not last; the desperation did. In time, the Japanese gave Burma its first nominal all-Burmese government, with U Nu as Foreign Minister, but he wore, as he put it, a "Made-in-Japan stamp" on his forehead. In 1944 the disillusioned Burmese rose up against the Japanese as 250,000 Allied troops poured in through the jungles...