Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no deliberate humor in the battle for such stars as Texas Linebacker Tommy Nobis, who was drafted No. 1 by both the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers and the N.F.L.'s Atlanta Falcons. "That boy's got a 20½-in. neck," sighed Oiler Owner K. S. ("Bud") Adams as he flew off to a conference with Nobis at the Villa Capri Motor Hotel in Austin last week. Nobis also, it developed, had an attorney. While Tommy drank half a dozen Cokes, gulped down two club sandwiches and said nothing, Adams tried to find out what...
...made three-piece herringbone suit, in the custom-made white on white silk shirt with little diamonds, in the silk foulard and tie or side buckle shoes. Even less so when dressed for the street, another silk foulard peeping jauntily out of the breast pocket of his Chesterfield, his neck encased in a giant paisley muffler (silk!), and the unruly yellow thatch hidden behind a slouch hat imported from far-away France...
...P.K.I, openly defied the army in a region of terror in Solo and the nearby towns of Boyolali and Klaten that resulted in some 200 to 600 being clubbed or stabbed to death-or disposed of by that hoary Chinese practice of burying the victim up to his neck and leaving him to the sun and insects...
Dead men tell surprising tales. If the victim is hanged after death, the blood vessels in the neck show a special pattern of rupture. If the victim is set on fire after death, the tendons, which are destroyed quite readily when a man is burned alive, for unknown reasons resist incineration. If the victim is thrown into water after death, the water will not reach the heart and there deposit algae, as it does whenever a man is actually drowned...
Individually, Miss Tolliver turned in the evenest performance of the three. Temin has an annoying habit of representing fear or trauma by having a tightly-reined, slow-motion epileptic fit. And Nagin relies too much on twisting his neck and anguishing. Once an actor has anguished a couple of times he doesn't tell you much about what's going on inside him the next three dozen times...