Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Finally, scalp electrodes monitor brain activity through electroencephalograms (EEG's), which can track periods of REM and non-REM sleep...
Deservedly so. His Chili Palmer is a Miami loan shark, the kind of good fellow who can shatter his competitor's nose and with a casually aimed shot nip a sliver off his scalp, in the process neither raising his voice nor losing his shy little smile. He's a much neater operative than Pulp's Vinnie. And his drug of choice is much less threatening; it's old movies. For he's also the kind of film geek who can identify Rio Bravo from a few snippets overheard on the TV set in another room, or mouth...
Unlike them, Florine Stettheimer was not in the least bohemian. The Arensbergs had bizarre figures of the Greenwich Village avant-garde like Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, the first New York punkette, who made public appearances with her hair shaved off and her scalp dyed purple. Such creatures would never have been tolerated at Stettheimer's evenings in town, where decorum prevailed, or her picnics in the country, which she painted as fetes champetres full of wispy, epicene figures...
...next two posts, in Western Europe, she was denied jobs where she could recruit informants. Without sufficient recruits, Diane's job ratings slid and she was dispatched to headquarters. "I'm just treading water," she says. "The DO lives and dies on recruitments. It's a scalp hunt...
...hits (Philadelphia, The Pelican Brief), Washington cedes the fiercer emotions to his co-stars. No surprise, then, that Hackman, as a sociopath, gets all the high notes and good lines ("We're here to preserve democracy, not practice it"). If the performance consists largely of Hackman briskly massaging his scalp every few minutes, that's his way of suggesting that Ramsey is trying to soothe or stir the demons inside...