Word: gait
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said now, perhaps, that Kellie Ann Mann's first crime was falling in love with a guy like Patrick. Before she met the popular, streetwise boy whose curly, shoulder-length blond hair and swaggering gait sent girls' hearts racing, Mann was just another middle-class Atlanta teenager crossing the rocky terrain of adolescence. Once, twice at most, she toked a joint. Then, she says, one night in 1986, outside Crestwood High School in Roswell, Ga., with Patrick sitting beside her in her new silver Volkswagen Golf, she took her first hit of LSD. "My parents were divorcing, and I guess...
...that you are a young person at the height of your career--specifically, a career which demands physical energy and vocal skill. Now imagine that one day you looked down at your left arm and found it shaking uncontrollably. Imagine that you felt your muscles becoming rigid and your gait hesitant and unsteady. Imagine that you had no idea how to stop these symptoms. Imagine that a doctor told you that you have Parkinson's, a disease usually associated with (but by no means limited to) the elderly. In the later stages of the disease, communication becomes nearly impossible: patients...
...waltzing, there is a science to Accurately Judging Success in Ballroom Dance Couples. It might amuse Dave Letterman to know about the mechanical differences between the airy hip-swaying stride of Richard Simmons and the brusque swagger of Sylvester Stallone; the information is right at his finger-tips in Gait Differences and Sexual Orientation: Evidence from Dynamic Point-Light Displays...
...with names like the Reformer--and the benefits she describes sound miraculous. Two hours of work with no sweat has allowed her to drop from a size 10 to a size 8, sometimes 6. Her stomach has been whittled; her hips have slimmed. She has the posture and lanky gait of a dancer. What she doesn't have is a diet, and her workout shoes--Pilates calls for socks only--sit in her closet, dusty. She's lost nearly 10 lbs. "People say to me, 'You look thinner,'" she marvels. "And I'm thinking, But I had that huge piece...
...like you in spite of your jabs, because you have given me an opportunity of spending an hour writing this letter. If you come over to Boston after I am out, I have a d___ good mind to buy you a drink. Two, if you can stand the gait. Will you libate with me? CHARLES PONZI Massachusetts State Prison Charlestown, Mass...