Word: pectorale
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Every character, great or small (and truth to tell, they're all small), has the juice of comic originality in him. In jail with Hi, one convict strums Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the old banjo. The bounty hunter -- he's real, not just a Hi dream -- is a...
Real characters might be one thing. That none of the football players are distinguished by anything other than their huge, post-puberty pectoral muscles and the slapstick amusement they provide is a real disappointment.
Beads of sweat glisten, pectoral muscles ripple, veins bulge in steamy close- up. They call him "a pure fighting machine," this glum-faced superhero with the Charles Atlas body. He has been sent on a daring mission to Viet Nam, a land that just a few years ago the nation...
As the anti-apartheid protest swelled, the black South African churchman who helped inspire it took possession of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. Clad in a red cassock and wearing a gold pectoral cross, South African Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu accepted the Nobel committee's $181,000 cash award...
Despite the persuasive force of these studies, Hellman admits, "the consensus among U.S. physicians is still in favor of mastectomy." Indeed, his own institution, Sloan-Kettering, has long been a bastion of radical surgery. A survey conducted in 1980-81 by the National Cancer Institute found that 80% of breast...