Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hair services include a head, neck, and shoulder shiatsu massage, coffee, tea, wash and blowdry and hot towel treatments...
...room, are strapped into seats and see a huge hideous monster writhing in a plastic tube. Then the alien escapes--and the lights go out. Heavy footsteps approach, and your seat gets a violent rattle. You feel the creature's breath and reptilian tongue on the back of your neck. An icky liquid drenches you; is it someone's exploding guts or your own fear-sweat? The experience is divinely cheesy: 3-D radio, aiming only to scare you nuts. And it works; the crowd happily screams along...
TEODORA MARIN, 21, ARRIVED LAST week at the sprawling County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles in no mood to ponder the fine points of municipal finance. Earlier in the day, she had discovered several soft lumps on the neck of her son Jesus. Jesus had been born at County-USC, premature and sickly; the doctors had told Teodora, a recent Mexican immigrant, that she must bring him back if unusual symptoms developed. Back to County-USC, that is: without money or insurance, none of the area's private clinics will see her. As a nurse inspected...
...friends martyred, and here all the young people wanted was to be like Madonna and Michael Jackson." By their way of dress, Iranians signal where they stand in the cultural divide. Devout revolutionaries wear dark colors. Men favor baggy trousers, long-sleeved shirts buttoned to the neck and several days' growth of beard; women wear layers of Islamic clothing known as hijab, including the magneh (a headdress) and the chador. On the other side, the garbzadeh -- literally, "those poisoned by the West" -- wear jeans and colored short-sleeved shirts if they are men; the women wear a raincoat-like "uniform...
CONVALESCING. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 42, screen and stage actor; from surgery to fuse the neck vertebrae he shattered in a fall from a horse; in Charlottesville, Virginia. The operation allowed Reeve to be elevated to a sitting position, but with the exception of some movement in his shoulders, he remains paralyzed and unable to breathe without a respirator...