Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hears his friend's calm reply to the police officer's question, "Who are you, big man?": "I am Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons at police headquarters in Port Elizabeth; the pimply-faced policeman in a shiny suit snarling, "You're going to disappear, and no one will ever know what happened"; and his friend's indistinct last words as officers shoved Biko and Jones into separate cars, something like, "I'll be seeing...
...Carolco Pictures was the producer of such juggernauts as Basic Instinct and a brace of Rambos. Now it's scrounging around for old props. After the huge, expensive stinkball Cutthroat Island was wrapped, some items weremissing. Oddly enough, a cannon, some maps, a peg leg and one of GEENA DAVIS' outfits turned up in Planet Hollywood Helsinki, co-owned by the movie's director and Davis' spouse RENNY HARLIN (the one with longer hair than MATTHEW MODINE's). Carolco says they were removed from the set without permission. Harlin's people say the props were given to the director because...
Both the men's and women's teams competed in individual events in the non-scored meet, and several athletes reached personal bests which give them momentum heading into the final leg of the season. However, most team members are skeptical of the possibility of team success...
...remove the entire right side of her cortex when she was six. Binder lost virtually all the control she had established over muscles on the left side of her body, the side controlled by the right side of the brain. Yet today, after years of therapy ranging from leg lifts to math and music drills, Binder is an A student at the Holmes Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She loves music, math and art--skills usually associated with the right half of the brain. And while Binder's recuperation is not 100%--for example, she has never regained...
...born with congenital birth defects. Throughout his 34 surgeries, he felt the need to identify with a friend like himself. So he and his mom created "buddies," custom-made dolls whose features match the disease or disability of the patient: the oncology doll has tubes; the orthopedic doll has leg braces. About 13,000 buddies have been distributed by hospitals and corporations...