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Shelley Thomas, 53, was wheeled into an anteroom at London's Middlesex Hospital in preparation for pelvic surgery. A patient going into that operation is usually given a mix of painkilling narcotics and nerve-quelling tranquilizers. But not Thomas. Instead she rested on a gurney, alert and calm, taking deep breaths at her hypnotherapist's instruction. Thomas counted aloud, "One hundred, deep sleep; 99, deeper sleep...
...strangely familiar work probes beyond the body and into the nervous system. A sequence of wooden blocks reminiscent of spinal vertebrae swings in front of a lattice of silicone nerves; in a nearby corner, a maze of slender cords dangles out of a hanging metal rib cage and pelvic structure. “I’m exploring how we experience the world and how the nervous system plays a role in allowing those experiences to happen,” she says. Surveying the studio’s lively disarray of half-finished projects and discarded body parts, Professor...
...creature[s] of the night,” but this production isn’t necessarily for those creatures. Make no mistake, this presentation is still full of over-the-top sexuality, more fishnets and feather boas than you can shake a crowbar at, and the pelvic thrust that drives audiences “insa-a-a-a-ane.” But nobody is going to be doing said pelvic thrust in an audience member’s face here. Still, while some might find the lack of audience participation frustrating, in general, this is a production that both...
...fall broke my left hip, and I had to have a new hip put in. In the second fall, I broke my pelvic bone in three places. The only way at my age to get healing of the pelvic bone is to stay in bed, so I've had to stay in bed most of this year. I feel a little weak from that, but I feel fine otherwise...
...Ellis novel at 7 Story Street last weekend. The literary lionesses were getting freaky on the dance floor when Signet President Raja G. Haddad ’05 decided to get in on the action like Humbert Humbert at an Aaron Carter concert. Haddad’s over-enthusiastic pelvic thrusts and occasional biting prompted onlookers to wince. Come on Raja: don’t you know the pen is mightier than the, uh, sword...