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...pain around the kidneys and explore the rectum (purpose: to look for growths and check the condition of the coccyx, the lowermost four vertebrae, which are the evolutionary remnants of a tail). Finally the doctor will test the patient's reflexes with the time-honored taps on the knee and ankle, measure the muscles and test sensation with pinpricks...
...really nothing," said the tourist; she had merely tumbled down a staircase while visiting Israel. But after a trip to Hadassah Hospital, Jane Fonda was on crutches with a cast up to her knee. The broken left leg did not prevent her from giving several benefit performances for the Haifa Theater, nor from taking her first tour of Old Jerusalem. Unfortunately, the star-struck local press easily matched her pace every limp of the way. Plagued by reporters at Jerusalem's monument to the Holocaust victims, the actress exploded: "You won't even let me cry by myself...
...search of enlightenment is a nonfiction standard. It would take a work of striking originality to break from the pack of aging hippies and victims of mid-life's critical list. This is the work. Nearing 40, with a mother dying of cancer and a marriage "childless and knee-deep in ruin," Bill Barich attempted an "escape into orderliness." He was to find an idea of order at New York and California race tracks, where winners and losers are clearly labeled and bloodlines still count. If Laughing in the Hills were only about horses, it could still be entered...
With my copy on his knee...
...knee injury that summer jolted her back into dealing with the world outside of dance. The leading dance doctor in New York told her she couldn't dance again. Crushed, she returned to Shaker Heights. "Dancing had always been a part of my life and suddenly it was not longer there," she says...