Word: neck
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...Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (for Foreign Film, Art Direction, Cinematography and Score) and "Traffic" (for Director, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay and Editing). When Douglas finally said, "And the Oscar goes to... 'Gladiator,'" even those of us rooting for "Crouching Tiger" were grateful that our dark horse had run neck-and-neck with the winner all the way to the finish line...
...seems well suited to those looking to avoid life's small annoyances. Take highway congestion. Chriss and Myrna Crawford, from Missoula, Mont., were caught in a three-hour traffic jam on a Los Angeles freeway several years ago. While the exasperated car drivers around and below them craned their neck and cursed, the Crawfords calmly cooked their dinner. In a generation or two, maybe all of us will take...
...required to lend listening systems to hard-of-hearing customers, Bernstein has purchased her own infrared unit. She's also bought a personal fm unit for lectures: the speaker wears a small microphone, which transmits via radio waves to a receiver connected to a loop Bernstein wears around her neck, which sends the signal to the telecoils in her hearing aids. She uses a caption decoder on her television, attends captioned theater performances and asks people to e-mail her messages rather than leave them on her telephone answering machine. Perhaps the most difficult listening environment is a noisy party...
Democrats and Republicans will be neck and neck in the Boston Marathon on April 16, as a bipartisan Harvard team of 15 politicians, journalists, staff and students from the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) will run together in the spirit of "FUN-raising to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association...
...laying out a fan, a piece of possum fur, a prickly teaser made of yarn, a hemp rope, a deerskin flogger and kangaroo-hide cat-o'-nine-tails. Finished with her preparations, the mistress turns, walks over to the submissive and grabs the skin at the back of his neck, as a mama cat might lift a kitten. "Stand for me," she commands...