Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abraham Lincoln prepared to vote, electronic vignettes of all the contenders. John Anderson, billed as the candidate of ideas, was seen soaring and swooping, eyes nearly closed in his passion, resembling no one so much as the late Billy Sunday. George Bush, the cool Ivy Leaguer, appeared with his neck veins protruding, finger wagging, voice in upper fortissimo. Jimmy Carter was there too, via the tube, talking calmly from the White House as the world he helped to create seemed to be collapsing around...
Annie Robinson, 58, needed an operation to remove the parathyroid glands in the front of her neck. Virginia Edmondson, 54, needed cartilage removed from the vertebrae at the back of her neck. On the same morning at Philadelphia's Graduate Hospital, doctors somehow mixed up the two women and started performing the vertebrae operation on the parathyroid patient and vice versa...
...Last year our defense was neck and neck with Cornell's and despite some changes on their line, they are still tough. I'd have to say that Lechner is the difference. These three games, he's come into his own and secured our defense," co-captain Peter Predun said yesterday...
Whose Life Is It Anyway? concerns the right to die. Claire Harrison (Moore), a sculptor, has suffered a spinal injury in an auto crash that has left her paralyzed from the neck down. Her keen, sprightly mind is scalded by her vision of the future. Never to work. Never to love again. To be robbed of her own will by the hospital chief (Josef Sommer), who feels free to sedate her with a tranquilizing needle during a fit of depression...
...languid, its transitions smoother, the sense of muscular tension and vigor less commanding. But it is still magnificent, even in comparison with the other sculptures at the show; among these is a bronze horse's head from the Florence Archaeological Museum which, with its flaring, taut musculature, rhythmic neck folds and elegantly articulated mane, is the very essence of forceful Hellenistic realism...