Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next day, on a sound stage got up to resemble a pirate cove on the coast of a Cornwall that never was, Ronstadt is dead on her feet. She leans her head on Smith's shoulder between takes. All the pirates are on hand, and so are the major general's daughters. George Rose, the major general, a veteran Shakespearean actor trained at the Old Vic and Royal Shakespeare Theater, is never out of character and never needs a retake. Kevin Kline, the pirate king, has a fencing shirt with a decolletage that makes matrons of good reputation...
...around the gunship, one here, one over there, one face up, another face down. A medic leads the stowaway off. The crew still stands by the craft, but no one wishes to move or speak. It is a moment of shock and disgrace. I squeeze the pilot's shoulder. "You see," he says, "here there really is a war going...
...spilling of salt was considered ominous, a portent of doom. (In Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the scowling Judas is shown with an overturned saltcellar in front of him.) After spilling salt, the spiller had to cast a pinch of it over his left shoulder because the left side was thought to be sinister, a place where evil spirits tended to congregate...
Poof! A puff of smoke and a little and devil on your right shoulder whispers in you ear, "Whaddaya doing, putz. You're two years past your sexual prime and slipping fast; you gonna pass this up, sucker...
Ding! A flash of light and a little white angel on your left shoulder asks, "Didn't they just discuss this at the meeting this morning? You wouldn't, would...