Word: legging
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...problem. Hefner, in his robe, pipe and ascot, a blond on each arm and around each leg, really looked like a playboy. Ginzburg, unfortunately, was Central Casting's idea of a pornographer: shady, you might say shifty, with a thin, sallow face and a small mustache. But he, unlike Hefner, wasn't selling himself as the face of his magazine. And Eros was so gorgeous, it made the sex appeal of its editor-publisher irrelevant...
...another cannot be removed from the house. The classic of the genre is, of course, The Man Who Came to Dinner, which, as we speak, is doubtless playing in a community theater somewhere in the United States. You remember: an arrogant author, on lecture tour, falls, breaks his leg and must stay with a small-town family for weeks, wreaking havoc on their formerly orderly lives...
...here? "We are going to have to amputate your leg," one of the doctors said. They lifted her onto the table...
...nurse put the mask down and walked away. The doctors wheeled her gurney back to her room. She does not know why they stopped. Maybe it was pity. Later, she would hear that the doctors tried to cut off her leg so she could be more easily transported to Baghdad, probably for a propaganda video; that her pieced-together legs would be too cumbersome--and could become infected if Iraqi soldiers tried to transport her by ambulance. She does not know if that is true or not. She just knows she was afraid to sleep, afraid to be awake. Sleep...
...three films with James Stewart tested Allyson's innate chipperness. In Strategic Air Command, a hymn to '50s flyboys, her co-respondent is a bomber, which almost takes Stewart to his death. She perseveres and sees to it that he does too. In The Stratton Story Stewart loses a leg; in The Glenn Miller Story he loses his life. She must support him, literally and emotionally, in the first; and in the second, she shows, with great delicacy and understated power, that grief is the inevitable last act for a wife's devotion...