Word: jawing
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...then return to a powdery state. The researchers, who demonstrated the same phenomenon with the chemical compound, speculate that a chemist may have concocted a hoax. The next day, in Padua, four masked thieves broke into the basilica and stole a gold-plated, jewel-encrusted reliquary. It contained the jaw and teeth of ST. ANTHONY...
...inmates, prison is a spartan experience. But not for Mexican drug baron Oliverio Chavez Araujo, 33, who has been linked to Colombia's Medellin drug cartel and has been incarcerated since 1986 at the state prison in Matamoros. After members of a rival drug gang shot Chavez in the jaw and nearly blinded him three weeks ago, his bodyguards staged a violent takeover of the prison; 18 people died. Once in control of the complex, Chavez continued to make drug deals from his cell, which was outfitted with cellular phones and a fax machine. Though state police ringed the prison...
Dick Tracy Warren Beatty and a brilliant crew turn comic-strip art into glamorous movie artifice. This is not only a straightforward rendering of the story about the big-city dick with a right-angle jaw; it is also a tribute to the lithe, blithe entertainment that Hollywood once served up with style...
Higgins' characters jaw endlessly about politics, the law and sports, showing but never speaking of love, depression, disdain, fear. He says he'll never run out of stories, though he keeps his bar-association membership current, just in case. He loves what he does, and has never collided with writer's block. Advice to young novelists? Nothing simpler: "You're a bricklayer, you lay bricks...
...class. This dismayingly passive experience crowds out other, more active endeavors: playing outdoors, being with friends, reading. Marie Winn, author of the 1977 book The Plug-In Drug, gave a memorable, if rather alarmist, description of the trancelike state TV induces: "The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth (if there are any). The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look...