Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There, upon the ground, lay the whitened image of a youth. His white eyes were starting from their crumbly sockets; his white mouth was gaping and within it, his teeth (still unconsumed), gleamed like beads. But worst of all, round his white neck was the knot of the white scarf (once black) with which he had been strangled! The burning quicklime, like the burning mind above it, had thrust up the knowledge of the crime...
Over the 36 years, McCurdy and his wife have accumulated two daughters, three sons and three grandchildren. Still, he said it seemed like only yesterday that he tied the connuptial knot around his neck...
...Frank N. Furter), a cryogenically-preserved '50s greaser (who escapes from his refrigerator and is, of course, hacked to death), an imitation Dr. Strangelove (who says things like, "This is, I presume, some kind of audio-vibratory molecular device"), and a narrator who has no neck. Besides a few of the uninitiated--called "virgins"--the audience has seen the movie one, two, five, ten or fifty times before, they have memorized all the lines, and added quite a few of their own; they throw rice and cards and toast and confetti and hot dogs and rolls of toilet paper, squirt...
...might find interesting, but bear in mind that the list is beavily slanted towards the major metropolitan centers. There should be fan magazines of some sort in most areas of the country--if you're interested, seek them out and support them. If there aren't any in your neck of the woods and you think one should exist, find some like-minded friends and start...
...Britain, graduates of Oxbridge colleges, officers of army regiments and members of London clubs have long worn institutional ties as a way of recognizing other "old boys" without asking. Now Americans can pick out a colleague or a competitor at a sales convention according to the cravat around his neck. Corporate neckties have recently become a bullish $12 million industry. Says A. Harvey Schreter, whose Baltimore-based company has made about 600 different company ties: "Last year our business grew by 30%, and it has trebled in the past five years...