Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small square, and would intervene. So they started to film, watching from a few yards as Andrews doused himself with lighter fluid and fumbled with matches. A flame started up on his blue jeans. The cameras rolled. The men watched. The flame spread across the victim's leg. The men continued to film...
...youthful, button-down conformity, Teddy Kennedy Jr., 21, seems cut from different cloth. After his leg was amputated in 1973 because of bone cancer, he was walking within days. In the years since, he has pursued his passions for squash, touch football, skating and waterskiing. And last week, at Mount Sunapee, N.H., he took a first place in the New England Regional Handicapped Ski Championship. With his proud father looking on, Kennedy beat a field of 25 men, thereby earning a spot at the National Championships this month in Squaw Valley, Calif...
...shopping around for a replacement. Jerry Lee, 21, looked like just the boy. Nicknamed the Killer, to his perpetual displeasure, Lewis sang country, which was not then considered commercially lot. But he also played mean boogie-woogie. He would sit down on the edge of the bench, right leg stuck out stiff, a habit acquired from practicing when he had a Broken hip. He would whip up a heavy rhythm with his left hand and play such a furious melody with his right that the tune would beg for mercy. The sound was backwoods, roadhouse. Phillips listened...
Even the special effects are respectable. In the movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was chased across a cornfield by a cropduster. In the law school parody, Thornbook plays a video game called "Cropduster" which seizes his leg and starts to spit out real bullets that convincingly explode against a wooden backdrop. There is even a short kickline. And where else can you get three hours with two dozen lawyers for only four bucks...
...Things Happen Here (1979). From a droll story titled The Best Shod: "An invasion of beggars, but there's one consolation; no one lacks shoes, there are more than enough shoes to go around. Sometimes, it's true, a shoe has to be taken off some severed leg found in the underbrush, and it's of no use except to somebody with only one good leg. But this doesn't happen very often, usually corpses are found with both shoes intact.' Valenzuela's tone is a far cry from fantasy. Says she: "Magical realism...