Word: headful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...around the surgeon’s building complex at night. At one point, they find themselves on the stage of a convention room by the catering table, when one of the organizers opens the curtains and comments, “It’s a man. With a bandaged head, wearing a night-gown. That’s all it is, I see it now. It’s just that he’s got a chicken or something on the end of his arm.” This seems to be Ishiguro’s conceptualization...
...first film left off with the brothers, Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy MacManus (Norman Reedus), aided by their fresh-from-prison father (Billy Connolly), and a slick, sharp-tongued FBI agent, Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe), killing off the head of the Yakavetta crime family in a courtroom. Though they lost their buddy Roc (David Della Rocca), a bumbling, Mafia delivery boy, in the process, they seemed well on their way to completing their mission of eliminating Boston’s “scum”: mobsters, pimps, drug dealers, in short, anyone who offends their sense of right...
...Let’s cut off someone’s hands and feet... with bombs!” or, my personal favorite, “Let’s cut someone in half... with acid!”. Standard “Saw” tropes like head-mounted traps, automated shotguns, self amputation, and smashing extremities to escape bondage make up the bulk of the film, while the few original elements (such as a maze filled with hot steam) are the least interesting of the mutilation machines. But this indirect borrowing from previous films apparently wasn?...
Finally, nestled in the center of the exhibition, is the ultimate encounter: the mummy itself. Only the head remains, a brown, distorted thing, its features drooping after chemical alterations and years underground. The process of mummification altered the face so much, a panel informs, that the priest in charge of preparing the body would recreate the face before burial. Today, the head looks more alien than human...
...their rush to loot the tomb, robbers severed the head from its body, and it is unknown today whether the head belonged to the governor or to his wife. But here again, the exhibition highlights archaeological advancement in relation to the object itself. A video explains how DNA testing is currently answering this century-old question...