Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as freestyle wrestling) is 444-lb. Chris Taylor, who very nearly gave up the sport after an incident that took place two years ago. "I pancaked this fellow, and I heard him screaming underneath me," he recalls. "I thought his back was broken. But it was his neck. He was paralyzed from the neck down." Taylor won the match, of course, but he lost much of his meanness. If he gets it back before Munich, he might trouble the only wrestler ever to have whipped him: 280-lb. World Champion Alexander Medved of Russia. Another Soviet giant...
...Sternfeld said he did not see the killers. But he did not explain the contradictory fact that there were bloodstains on the inside of Eboli's car, and authorities held him as a witness under $250,000 bail. Eboli, freshly barbered and wearing a gold crucifix around his neck, was found with $2,077 in a pocket of his blue sports jacket...
...flight or evaporation. The result was a fervently decorative and mannered style of representing the nude, which owed a great deal to Modigliani. A sculpture like Seated Girl, 1913-14, with its long geometrical curve running from toe through thigh and torso to the impossible declination of the neck, is a fascinating prediction of Art Deco: coarser variants of this woman subsequently infested the mantelpieces of the late 1920s...
Barney makes a last frantic stab at infidelity with the melancholic wife of one of his neighbors in suburban Great Neck. Now the positions are reversed. Barney, after his combat training, has become the manic aggressor; Jeanette Fisher is the coward, full of fear and un certainty. Barney finally bundles Jea nette into a cab, then goes to a phone booth to call his wife Thelma and in vite her down to Mom's for a romantic afternoon...
...Leslie tone cabinet, were confronted, and solved. Then, 30 seconds of silenced. Then, thunder, the massive chords of "Meeting of the Spirits," four of them, as though to alert the heavens that the show had begun. The piece's theme is finger-picked, on the 12 string neck of McLaughlin's double-necked Gibson. From there the group's soloists explored the theme's possibilities...