Word: necked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revealed, these Indian dancers never put the body on display. Theirs is an art of angles rather than curves. To shape the angles, Indian performers exercise muscles not usually used by Western dancers. Hands are incessantly occupied with mudras, the eloquent and elegant Hindu language of the hands. Head, neck, facial muscles, eyes, even eyebrows contribute. To reveal only the whites, wide-eyed dancers conceal the iris under the upper or lower lid, and Shanta Rao can make either one of her eyebrows dance up her forehead while the other is kept immobile. Fourteen Eye Movements. Mangalore-born Dancer...
...symptoms, Yovicsin asserted, had been a stiffness in his neck, spells of perspiration, and a temperature. "I guess that's Asian flu," he added...
...this point, a figure arose from the other end of the counter. Corduroy trousers, a surplus Army combat jacket (over a crew neck sweater), and upon his face the stubby bristle of a cultivated beard...
...Blake's head. Blake, blood streaming from a shallow scalp wound, scuttled away, shouting to newsmen and photographers as he went: "Who knows the name of that lowlife s.o.b. who hit me?" A top sergeant ordered his men: "Keep those bayonets high-right at the base of the neck...
...bullet full in the face. The gunman, thought to be a professional Cuban gun slinger, grabbed Martnez' briefcase, then scuttled from the building undetected. Only in one detail did the shooting vary from the pattern: the bullet ripped through Martnez' cheek and neck, missing a vital spot, and the Trujillo critic will probably live...