Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph tried a stint at New York's City College but decided to drop out, at least partly, he says, because it was an aesthetic letdown. "There was no wonderful campus with boys and girls wearing V-neck sweaters," he explains, as though he still feels he missed something in life...
Marge came in from the kitchen and addressed the crowd. She wore jet beads and a black blouse with a naughty scoop neck and black pajama pants, and she looked young and terrific. On the upright was a bouquet from her students. "I hope you all don't melt," she said. "Do you feel like sardines? I'm giving you all the air I can." It was a hot night for the high plains, and all the doors and windows were open. "I'm so proud of them," Marge went on. "I just hope nerves don't take over...
...repair the damage. Earlier this summer, in Ramsay, Mich., a pit bull broke out of its owner's yard and wandered into a neighbor's. There it pounced on Kyle Corullo, a 20-month-old, and thrashed him about like a stuffed toy. Kyle died of a broken neck before police arrived and shot the animal...
Many people, trapped by various aspects of society--including the professor, the goatherd, and a ridiculous grass-smoking stereotype who wears a heavy locked chain around his neck, and says mysteriously, "I threw away the key"-- feel this strange attraction to Mona, and the viewer comes to feel it also. One doesn't quite identify with Mona, because she isn't really a personality, but one does identify with her driving force, the power that keeps her drifting, keeps her moving past opportunities to settle down, or jobs or love affairs...
...denied Jesus three times before the cock crowed and who finally was martyred, according to Origen's histories, crucified upside down on a hillside. Then came St. Linus, St. Anacletus and St. Clement I, who may or may not have been drowned off Crimea with an anchor around his neck. These were the first of the heirs of St. Peter, the Popes of Rome, some of them loved, some feared, some venerated, some murdered. One of the proudest and most powerful, Innocent III (1198-1216), started calling himself the Vicar of Christ because he said he was "set midway between...