Word: handprint
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...point he gently exhorts the reader to place a hand on a life-size photo reproduction of a handprint left by its maker on a ceramic brick, taken from an unearthed Han tomb wall. It's a hauntingly visceral exercise, like shaking hands with a dead man, but precisely the type of immanent encounter with a past typically coffined in museum display cases that Barbieri-Low hopes to inspire. "Understanding these lives," he says, "will allow us to humanize the material remains of the past...
...clichés go in mysteries and thrillers, you can’t get much more generic than a red handprint on a black background as your cover. Unfortunately for John Grisham, the premise of his debut non-fiction work, which is “an exploration of small-town justice gone terribly awry,” looks about as interesting as his cover. Go back to fiction, John...
...most “story” videos. In an unprecedented display of teenage rebellion, Jimmy runs away from home, but not before scrawling “St. Jimmy” in lipstick on a bathroom wall, cutting his palm with a dirty razor blade, and leaving a bloody handprint underneath. While it may lay claim to higher legitimacy, all “Jesus of Suburbia” really teaches is that giving yourself blood poisoning is a superb way to stick it to the man, and that you can never wear enough eye makeup. —Lisa...
...church." But she believes in some other things too. Some years back, sitting in a seminary class, she had a flashback. She was a girl again, and her mother had just been murdered by her boyfriend. Once more Terrell saw the blood-soaked mattress and her mother's bloody handprint on the wall. And suddenly, "I had to find a connection between my mom's story and my story and Jesus' story," she says...
...sources say the most significant arrest so far is that of Badat. He is charged with "unlawfully and maliciously" conspiring with Reid "and others unknown to cause ... an explosion of a nature likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property in the United Kingdom or elsewhere." A handprint and hair found in Reid's shoe-bomb explosives did not belong to Reid, suggesting the bombs were prepared for him by an accomplice shortly before his failed attack. According to two U.S. law-enforcement officials, British investigators have made a forensic link between Badat and Reid. At the time...