Word: peel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the largely white punk athletes have an attitude that is as infectious as it is intimidating. There is none of Michael Jordan's focused intensity. Instead, street lugers smirk and greet the camera as they prepare to peel down a hay-bale-lined hill at 63 m.p.h., just 5/16 of an inch from the ground. Like the cartoon version of Jordan's flu-plagued 1997 playoff performance, Lee Dansie rides with two broken ribs, qualifies for the finals and then jumps into the camera lens: "Hope I didn't hurt your ankles, cameraman dude...
...pork cooked up in a new kitchen, however. Cyberswine, produced by Los Angeles-based Brilliant Digital Entertainment, is one of the first "Multipath Movies"--animated stories that let the viewer direct the action. You get to stroll down a narrative path of your choosing: stick with Cyberswine, or peel off and follow the action from the perspective of one of his pals. Don't dig the pig's vibes? Click on an icon in the corner of the screen, and tweak his character to make him more clever, anxious, aggressive or caring. You can also change the camera angle...
...Fairchild is a monster of charm and talent, adulated for the purity of his counterculture protest. And, as Spencer tells it, he abandons his pregnant girlfriend Esther Rothschild when he hits the big time, and then meanly refuses to acknowledge the resulting child Billy as his own, or to peel off any loot for child support. The story is told by Billy, who, as a teenager and then as an adult, skulks about the edges of Luke's fame, hoping forlornly for a smile from...
...Using an instrument resembling a vegetable peeler, Himel begins peeling back the hardened, white, dead skin on the woman's burned chest. "I know I've reached healthy skin if there's bleeding," he says. After a few thin layers have been removed, blood begins to ooze. While Polynice mops it up, Himel continues to peel away at dead skin until he reaches the fat and muscle layer underneath...
...Having removed all the dead skin from the chest and neck, Himel holds the patient's left thigh taut while the surgical assistant uses an electric-powered device to peel away two foot-long strips of the epidermis and the upper part of the dermis from the woman's left...