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...five operations on her elbow alone and must wear a full bodysuit--"my black catsuit," she calls it--to prevent further scarring. She had to learn how to walk through her pain after surgeons took the tough skin from the sole of her left foot to remake her right palm...
...recounts the embattled life and tragic death of the titular courtesan. In the film, Kwon-taek combines the conventions of historical melodrama and musicals in ways reminiscent of Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, which, incidentally, beat Kwon-taek’s film for the Palm d’Or at that year’s Cannes Film Festival...
...began to eat it,” she said in an interview for an exhibit at Artists Space in New York City this past summer. “I sanded the edges with a rough sand paper, catching the dust in my hand and then licking it from my palm.” Melts in your mouth, not in your hands...
...Badge of Courage. "Rapid, approaching explosions" sound "like an applauding audience running toward us." After the first wave of bombs, Thomas rushes out into the firestorm to find his girlfriend: "I grabbed the doorknob and it took the skin off my hand, I saw the muscles of my palm, red and pulsing, why did I grab it with my other hand...
...offices of fledgling Accentra, a more intuitive process was under way: Todd Moses, a former hardware marketing executive, had been frustrated with his jam-prone Swingline (the top complaint gleaned from Swingline's exhaustive research). So he created the PaperPro stapler, which Moses boasts requires only 7 lbs. of palm pressure to operate, compared with 30 lbs. for a traditional model. "You can do 20 sheets with one finger. You can even use your pinkie...