Word: headlessness
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...Fluffy”) and fire-breathing dragons. Dame Maggie Smith is appropriate as the stately and feline Professor McGonagall, and Richard Harris rasps his way through his role as Professor Dumbledore. Other famous stars only make brief appearances: John Cleese hams it up appropriately as Nearly-Headless Nick, Julie Waters is onscreen for two seconds as Ron’s mom, John Hurt sparkles with appropriate wit and gravity as the wand-seller Mr. Ollivander and Warwick Davis (Willow) teaches levitation as Professor Flitwick...
...providing moral leadership for a watching world," said Wisconsin's James Sensenbrenner. Lawmakers cited everyone from Galileo to the Pope to Nancy Reagan in their arguments over how best to balance protecting human life against relieving human suffering. Supporters of the tight Weldon ban warned of embryo farms and headless humans cloned to harvest their organs. "Human beings should not be cloned to stock a medical junkyard of spare parts for experimentation," declared Tom DeLay. Those favoring Greenwood's more liberal guidelines warned of America becoming a theocracy, where a minority's conviction could block research to benefit millions...
...finishing area where makeup and nails are applied, a scene both horrible and erotic confronts my eyes: dangling from chains from the ceiling are seven headless, footless, handless dolls of varying shapes of female perfection. They sway back and forth, hypnotizing me - until I notice that seated behind me are five of their silicone sisters. Startled, I turn to look them in the eyes. Maureen Kelly, a 40-ish California blond with a rock 'n' roll outlook and a cat tattoo on her ankle, laughs at my discomfort. She does makeup and dresses the dolls. "See that one?" she says...
...This is the mind's natural reflex of tedium and disgust, much like the revulsion and detumescence experienced after watching hard-core pornography for a little while. After you have seen the Headless Horseman perform three or four ride-by whackings, after you have watched Russell Crowe (Everyman, gone twitchingly postal) take off half a dozen heads, the instruments of human feeling shut down. You react to blood firehosing from a severed carotid as you would to the sight of a man spilling gravy on his tie. Whoops...
...Minister implicated by opposition groups in the murder of a journalist who was highly critical of the government; in Kiev. Kravchenko's dismissal came two months after the airing of tapes in which voices similar to his and that of President Leonid Kuchma discuss kidnapping reporter Georgy Gongadze, whose headless corpse was discovered last November. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets calling for Kuchma to resign, and Kravchenko's departure is seen as a gesture of compromise by the President and an effort to preserve his own hold on power. DIED. MORRIS ("MOE") KOFFMAN, 72, flutist, saxophonist...