Word: jointedness
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Halberstam covered the sit-ins as a 25-year-old reporter for the Nashville Tennessean. As he writes, "I knew in some instinctive way from the first time I watched the young people walk from Kelly Miller Smith's church to the Woolworth's counter that I was watching the...
Rimes has taken that popcorn-kernel-in-the-throat catch, married it to old-fashioned yodeling and become a crossover star. On the hit single Blue and on an Eddy Arnold duet of the venerable Cattle Call, her voice breaks with startling ease and, in a microsecond, pole-vaults from...
A hundred paranoias bloomed. Or anyway, moods hardened into intransigence: Here I stand. The Gingrich freshmen vowed no compromise; liberals wrote them down as fascists. The Million Man March, otherwise admirable, provided the platform for minister Louis Farrakhan's elaborate numerological fantasies, the very arithmetic of the universe clicking in...
There is a double-jointed consciousness at work in the dramatics of big weather. Down in the snowstorm, we are as mortal as the deer. I sink to my waist in a drift, I panic, my arms claw for an instant, like a drowning swimmer's, in the powder. Men...
There's one problem with this familiar version of how our distant ancestors emerged from the sea: it's probably wrong. For one thing, newly assembled fossils -- in particular, a 360 million-year-old salamander-like aquatic animal called Acanthostega -- strongly suggest that toes and feet were developed before life...