Word: neck
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...Night Owl" column extolled for nearly four decades the sybaritic pleasures available to expatriate men in Thailand's capital; in Bangkok. The Brooklyn-born Trink covered the city's go-go bars, massage parlors and pubs, making the rounds with his Thai wife in tow, owl medallion around his neck and maroon polyester pants hitched up to his chest. He wrote in a retro style in which prostitutes were "demimondaines," and press releases were preceded by the phrase, "The tom toms have it ..." His signature sign-off was, "But I don't give a hoot." The column...
...Woolrich: the accused must corral the killers to exonerate himself. And who could be more helpless than a child - alone, abandoned, unbelieved - pursued in the dark by a murderer? This atmospheric thriller, shot almost entirely at night, tautens the suspense like rough hands around a little boy?s neck. Driscoll was a Disney star (?Song of the South,? ?Treasure Island?) who somehow knew the way to plant fear and grit on a winsome face. He makes ?The Window? one of the most modest and satisfying Woolrich adaptations. Driscoll earned a special Oscar for his acting that year, but with puberty...
...INJURED. OZZY OSBOURNE, 55, heavy metal icon and star of a reality TV show featuring his family life, in a quad bike accident; on his estate in Buckinghamshire, England. Osbourne broke his collarbone and ribs, and cracked a neck vertebra...
Later paintings spotlighted herself, naked except for a ribbon hanging around her neck, which was representative of her “obsession with winning.” Now, Wong’s paintings are “fun, happy, probably less formal than before,” as she describes them, often featuring multiple versions of herself in paradise...
...potentially death-defying turns on the ski field, Wagner has run from executive meetings of the Harvard International Review and the International Relations Council to gatherings of the Seneca, the female social club she served on as real estate chair. Right now, however, Wagner finds herself “neck-deep in data,” for her thesis on how women of different socio-economic backgrounds balance the pressures of work and family. Wagner is particularly enthused about the opportunity to “study a group of people [I will] one day be a part...