Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Political junkies from all walks of life and from diametrically opposed ideological camps rubbed shoulders, sharing the latest numbers and trading tidbits of information on how Councillor Edward N. Cyr--running neck-and-neck with School Committee member Alfred E. Vellucci--was faring with Wolf's transfers...
...offered a lucid explanation of the asymmetry in my hip that was causing muscles in my back and legs to tighten in compensation. At his recommendation, I gave up carrying my wallet in my back pocket. I returned at later dates with a banged-up shoulder and a stiff neck. Each time I left feeling improved, while politely agreeing to manage my chakras better...
...then the sound of sirens shattered the Sunday peace. Joy moved to the front yard, where she was joined by neighbors and then by John, all of them craning their neck and looking for the fire. "This smoke was different from Saturday's," says John. "It was dark and thick. But I still thought it was no big deal." At noon John took a shower, thinking for the first time that he might have to take action. "Let me get some clothes on the kids," he said to himself. "Let me get my credit cards, just in case...
Backstage, the legendary Cajun fiddler Dewey Balfa, 65, waits his turn to go on, a red plastic crawfish dangling from the neck of his violin. He speaks of the "great migration" -- the expulsion of the French Acadians from Canada in 1755 -- as if it happened yesterday. "What they brought here is still alive in our culture and our love for each other," he says. "I'm an American, but I don't want to lose my French identity...
...abuses by the activist priest -- charges soon bolstered by an Organization of American States team in Haiti. Most disturbing: a Sept. 27 speech in which Aristide seemed to condone Pere Lebrun, a Haitian form of lynching in which a gasoline- soaked tire is set ablaze around a victim's neck. Officially, the U.S. % continued to advocate Aristide's return, but the likelihood of intervention on his behalf dropped sharply...