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...Chief Justice Warren Burger and four others voted to overturn a stay that had been issued by an appeals judge earlier in the day. About 45 minutes later, that news reached Coppola at Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond. At 11:18 p.m., the prisoner walked 30 paces and, with outward calm, sat down in an oak electric chair built by inmates 74 years ago. At 11:27, after two 55-second jolts of electricity, Coppola died...
...edge, where the fill is used to extend an immense quarter-mile-wide causeway, one of the largest landfill operations of its kind. When completed in 1985, the six-mile-long causeway will provide berths for up to 18 ocean-going cargo ships at a time. At its farthest outward point sits a colossal open-sea crude-oil loading terminal large enough to accommodate a 500,000-ton supertanker...
...outward appearances, it was a routine business transaction involving a foreign corporation and a Stateside consulting firm. In fact, it turned out to be part of a transcontinental sting operation that snared some of the world's biggest electronics companies...
Stage fright was assessed by wire-free, remote electrocardiogram monitoring during the performance and blood pressure readings before and after. The Brantigans also checked for such outward signs of stress as trembling hands and sweaty brows. By all measures, propranolol stopped the shakes. Heart rates that galloped at an average of 148 beats a minute with a placebo dropped to around 104 with propranolol (70 is a normal resting rate). Even more impressive, critics overwhelmingly favored the propranolol-soothed performances...
...generalized hieroglyph for "expressionist" feeling, as in de Kooning or the new German painters. Such painting wants to inspect and describe the body as a real object in the world, in all its resistances, its actualities, its peculiar landscapes of pit and pore and hair. It wants to move outward from that to see its social relations and, perhaps, its allegorical uses, but it is invariably tied to some conception of realism. This is the painting that always gets condescendingly rediscovered when people talk about "realist revivals...