Word: necked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...directed me as to how to position myself on the "bed" part of the machine. Feeling uncomfortable was only the beginning. My neck and shoulders were somehow not aligned quite right on the machine. It took more squirming before I found a tolerable position. Comfort was important since I was not allowed to move during the several-minute-long pictures, of which there were four. One seemed like more than enough...
...coins appear, vanish and change, the "Chinese Wallet" will change your cash into a fortune, and the "Money Maker" cranks in blank paper and spits out dollars. Jack's can teach you how to put a cigarette through a quarter or how to place a half dollar through the neck of a bottle and out again. Budding magicians who want to learn the tricks of the trade can choose from Jack's how-to videos on card magic, thumbtip tricks, money magic, balloon magic and other illusionist genres...
...crowd's pleasure, it wasn't long beforethe smart-mouthed Rose was picked up, dropped onhis neck and wheeled off in stretcher...
...Gale, who ridicules Freundlich's melodramatic pauses but turns down an on-air spot with another network because it is not as dedicated to journalism as he is. And there's Mona (Catherine Lloyd Burns), McKenzie's personal assistant, so toadying that she wears a lint brush around her neck...
Coupland has mastered the art of the precisely timed witticism, the understatement and the random comic comparison. His language dances around its subjects, as when Richard discovers that the end of the world has come and "an adrenaline fang bites the rear of his neck." Coupland extends his metaphor of human infringement on nature with the words he uses to describe the post-apocalyptic world: "The darkening sky is becoming a warm, dead Xerox and the winds blow forcefully as though aimed from a hair blower," and "Below them, the fire on the sloping neighborhoods burns like a million...