Word: rimming
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Kline has contemplated his fair share of Yoricks. Inside the green canvas bag slung over his shoulder--along with a pack of Marlboro Lights and two recently bought pairs of wire-rim reading glasses--is a copy of Hamlet, a play he has carried with him almost constantly since he moved to New York a quarter-century ago. It is hardly as though he needs to read Hamlet again; he can recite the role from memory and has no current plans to perform the lead, having already done so twice in the past 12 years to warm reviews...
...drawing was of some children in a jungle clearing. A Khmer Rouge soldier had his rifle trained on them. Off to the side of the drawing was a large circle with four lines extending from the outer rim to the center, where there was a hole like a wheel's hub. Leading away from one part of the outer rim were three lines, and from another part a single line with a small ring...
...children in the drawing included Peov. The soldier was forcing them to do something involving the circular device, which she explained. The lines between the outer rim and the center hole were metal blades. The three outer lines were cords held to keep the device steady. When the cord with the ring was pulled, the blades closed around the center hole, like a camera lens. Children caught trying to escape would have their heads put in that hole and be decapitated. Other children, like Peov, were made to operate the device...
...cracking wise--lamely. All right, nobody goes to hear an action movie, but the verbal humor in The Lost World didn't have to be so stilted. In Con Air and Batman & Robin the lines have the rhythm of wit but not the content; they are their own rim shots...
...Quakers were ready for this. Penn's Tim Krug met Campbell near the basket and blocked his shot before it got close to the rim, and I remember watching the ball slowly bounce along the ground out of bounds, thunk.....thunk...thunk..thunkthunkthunk...