Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eyed stares. Not five minutes later, his face fixed in a pained smile, Dole retreated to his motorcade. As he crossed what must have seemed like miles of inner-city street, he saw one smiling dark face--mine, as it turned out--and he threw an arm around my shoulder. "How ya doing?" he enthused. "Fine." I replied. "How are you doing, Senator?" Finally he recognized me again, and his eyes opened wide in the awful realization of a failed rescue attempt...
...they saying? Are they ready to adopt the thunderous moralizing of Bennett? Paint good and bad in bold relief? Is Etzioni prepared to stigmatize divorce? He says yes, but when you press him to define stigma, its meaning grows elusive. Is he saying you should give the cold shoulder to a neighbor who has left his or her family for a new and improved spouse? Should you not invite such people to parties? Well, he's not sure he'd go that far until we've exhausted other avenues. (Let's give those supervows a few more years to kick...
...mainly the image of Liszt as music's first international superstar, and one of the Romantic Century's great Don Juans, that remains fixed in our collective memory: a slim, strikingly handsome six-footer with a flowing mane of shoulder-length hair, a piano conjurer able to summon near orchestral effects and rouse audiences to such frenzied emotional states that the poet Heinrich Heine coined the term "Lisztomania." "I think I laughed--laughed like an idiot" is how Edvard Grieg described his ecstatic reaction to Liszt's playing. George Eliot's recorded impressions of Liszt come very close to swooning...
...Reeve is put through neck exercises--sort of neck pushups, with the head lifting up and down and the nurse holding it to provide resistance. Each exercise entails 50 repetitions. Then he rotates his head from side to side, and again the nurse resists. He does chin tucks and shoulder shrugs, in which he exercises what little movement he has in his shoulders; he raises them as high as he can, then brings them down again, also 50 times. He does a similar exercise of the scapula muscles, below the shoulder blades...
...with him, as did Exton. He grew close to his nurses, especially a man nicknamed Juice--"my beloved Juice"--who was devoted to him. Juice had a joyous nature and was exceptionally strong. "When he would grip me," says Reeve, "and I'd lean forward on his shoulder, I felt that nothing could possibly go wrong...