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...Brown Bunny, let loose such a torrent of critical contumely that the director-writer-star-cameraman-editor apologized publicly for his film. Bunny's only selling point was the promise of an explicit scene of fellatio between Gallo and Chloë Sevigny. One hour and 47 minutes into the ordeal, there it came, and went. We later learned that Gallo had used a phallic prosthesis he'd taken from the set of Claire Denis' French film Trouble Every Day (shown at Cannes in 2001) and that Denis was still miffed about the missing member. Her exact quote is missing...
...supporter of the war on Iraq, but after reading about Nouman's ordeal, I realized that war was necessary to free the Iraqi people from the kind of torture she went through. Her story really ripped my heart out. I hope no one ever again has to suffer the trials Nouman endured. The bottom line is that the war has at least freed one very courageous woman. CORA CHEUNG Toronto...
...nurse with experience in many health-care areas, I went through my worst ordeal when a friend, a 50-year-old woman, had a massive coronary. We couldn't save her, even with all our emergency medical technology. She had smoked and taken hormones but had shown no outward signs of heart disease. Since then I have tried to inform every patient of the need for tests and vigilance about the symptoms of heart disease. Women's heart-disease symptoms are different from men's. Regular cardiovascular checkups would save more women's lives. JANNIE MARTIN Baytown, Texas...
...retrieve the arm later that day, but they had no more luck moving the boulder than Ralston; the rock is said to be big enough to fill the bed of a pickup. Ralston, now hospitalized in serious condition in Grand Junction, Colo., hasn't spoken publicly of his ordeal. His family has issued a statement attributing his survival to Ralston's "strong physical and mental condition...
...Burnham tells TIME she wrote the book to answer questions about her time in the jungle and to honor her husband, "who got me through the ordeal." Her critics, she believes, did not read the book, in which she qualifies collusion talk as what she heard from her captors and other hostages, or what she thought in moments of despair. She says the book shows "what rats the Abu Sayyaf were," and that they "are to blame for the whole thing," no matter who shot her husband. Otherwise, she asserts, "I told the story...