Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last year the trio's work produced $500,000 for a man who water-skied into a submerged stump and was paralyzed from the neck down. In another case, a jackknifing truck had killed a father, mother and three children and left four more children seriously injured. Boccardo, Bradley and Drendel won a $1,432,500 verdict...
...Elvis comes down off the stage. He wades through the rivers of ecstatic thirty-year-olds that stream down the aisles, abandoning their husbands and lovers to drink silently at their tables. Elvis pushes slowly and resolutely through the women, Kissing those that manage to grab hold of his neck, merely touching the outstretched bands of the others. He crosses the entire room, until finally mercifully, one of his aides pulls him back onto the stage. And you understand it all too well. He's simply borrowing from the politician's routine. Abandon the motorcade and dive into the crowd...
Another Goddess. After examining the head herself last May, Miss Love decided that such neglect was completely unwarranted. It was carved of the fine-grained white Parian marble favored by Praxiteles, she explains, and the quality of workmanship, the late classical style and hairdo, the delicate folds in the neck, and the slightly larger-than-life dimensions all indicate that it came from the hand of the master...
...perfect crime. Anthony Shaffer has done it in Sleuth. Shaffer, twin brother of Peter Shaffer (The Royal Hunt of the Sun), has written a thriller that is urbanely clever, unashamedly literate, clawingly tense and playfully savage. If it is not the best play of its genre ever, it is neck and neck with the best...
Chomsky's dust jacket presents a photograph of a beefy American G.I. leading a frail, blindfolded, near-naked Viet Cong out of a helicopter by a rope around the neck. For Chomsky, Indochina is a kind of parable. Viet Nam is the historical misadventure that has exposed the corruption of America-its materialism, its hypocritical democracy -to itself and to the world. If Americans cannot see this and reform, he says, they will destroy themselves and quite possibly everybody else...