Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...less than successful. Carol has come for purely selfish reasons: "I want to know about my grade. Is that bad?" John continues speaking for a different selfish reason: to hear himself talk. But is that all he really wants? His off-color language and an attempted pat on the shoulder have convinced Carol by Act Two that she was the victim of sexual manipulation. John, to her mind, has demanded her submission to his specious, inflated academic authority...
...patrons, the Otherside Lounge was half full when the latest bomb went off, without warning, shortly after 10 p.m. "Everybody just froze," bartender Rhonda Armstrong told CNN. "It sounded like a cannon in a circus." A rescue worker reported treating a woman with a nail driven into her shoulder, leaving a wound "as big as a nickel." One victim underwent surgery at a nearby hospital and was said to be in stable condition...
...echo of Jack Kerouac's rambunctious 1957 novel, On the Road, begins to sound about halfway through The Beach (Riverhead; 371 pages; $23.95), by British writer Alex Garland, 27. The reason it takes half of Garland's moody tale for Kerouac's ghost to tap the reader on the shoulder is that the feel of the two novels could not be more different. On the Road was loony, funny, electric; The Beach is listless, pallid, drifting without object...
...Take a break from computer work every 30 minutes. Let your hands loosely hang by your sides, then stretch slowly and carefully for about two minutes to loosen neck and shoulder muscles...
...know that all three of us were gay? Did you know when my friend and I walked in together, or when I tapped my other friend's shoulder to say hi? I think you had a hunch, because you were watching us right away. You glared at us, whispered to each other and smirked. Then, when we sat down, you moved from an empty table and took two chairs at ours. Why did you do that? None of us knew you. We wanted to eat together in peace...