Word: noggin
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...asked a state court judge to permit a seven-person team to freeze him, then sever his frozen head and store it. Someday, he figures, science will provide a cure for the cancer that afflicts him. Then, if doctors can master the art of brain transplantation, Donaldson's noggin could be thawed out and his brain implanted in another body. At $35,000, freezing a head is a good deal cheaper than the $100,000 it costs to suspend an entire body...
...with grace. Particularly noteworthy is Leah Nutting as the tyrannical bridge-playing editor Betty Scant. Any writer who has ever suffered under the tyrannical hand of a tasteless editor will marvel at the verisimilitude she brings to her tirades, considering that she has a red polygon perched on her noggin. If only all our editors were so well dressed...
...audience by the hand and says, "Look, kid. It's time to get a little crazy. For the next coupla hours we're gonna talk about some serious things. Murder, Marriage Crime. The usual sociopathy. But not to worry, old buddy old pal [patting the audience, puplike, on the noggin], 'cause through it all, for all our seriousness, we're not gonna take ourselves all that seriously...
Another pet phrase, voiced by the rather dazed huntsmen and villagers of the dream scenes is, "They say seeing is believing..." This is usually muttered after the hacked-off forepaw or noggin of a wolf develops hominoid traits in instant coffee fashion...
...behind at No. 9. The point is not that the albums are in competition with each other, although both are on the same label, Columbia, and Bruce has frequently, and unfairly, been used as a stick to deliver a few critical raps on Billy's noggin. Much more interesting is the fact that, in parlous economic times, when the record business is suffering heavy sales deprivation and audiences are supposed to want only bantamweight escapism, two serious, ambitious, even dour, albums have scored big by hanging tough...