Word: legless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband reappeared unexpectedly, he became not only her legal husband again -the second marriage was invalidated -but also, under Italian law, the father of the children. The family decided to live together in a cozy menage a trois in which the woman was married to the first man, a legless veteran, but cohabited with the second...
...example, have one important character trait. They "believe passionately in the integrity of all the world." Although they have spent their lives crusading vainly and have witnessed a great deal of violence and cruelty, they are convinced that everyone is basically good. Smiling, they distribute money to armless, legless beggars and cluck sadly at racial violence in the South. When they are pushed around for no reason by expressionless secret police and their innocent friends are beaten and locked up, they just keep smiling and don't think for a moment that Haiti's despotism might be less than benevolent...
...permitted little physical activity. Sex did make a difference, at least in this one case. The ex-WAVE stuck to her more-than-Spartan regime, with no solid food at all, for no less than 117 days. She lost 116 Ibs. The runner-up was a legless man who had weighed in at 284 Ibs. and stuck it out for 75 days, dropping 41 lbs. Leland Poe, who had started at 550 Ibs., stayed with it for 60 days and lost...
...Communist radio announcer de scribes the tag end of a May Day parade: "We can already hear the noise of stamping and shuffling," he says with enthusiasm. "Yes, here they come. Our glorious incomparable rehabilitated invalids. A spirited detachment of legless men who are swinging their crutches with gusto. Wooden legs reflect the sun. Two men who have lost an arm each get together so they can clap...
...Knowledge of Death. Before Rome, Greene used to paint frozen tableaux that mirrored modern existentialist ideas. He trapped his figures-as in Sartre's No Exit-in shallow doorless and windowless spaces, amputated their legs, and left them relying on crutches. The Burial (see color) shows a legless living cadaver sprawled in a coffin, stifling back a scream with his hand-a scream that comes from "the pain of knowledge of that death in life which we begin experiencing early," Greene explains. Behind the coffin lid, a mourner gestures upward as if in hope. But his candle remains unlit...