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...becomes a burden. She too often minimizes Mapplethrope's sociopathic impulses, which appeared early on in childhood, when, according to the book, he took delight in killing his pets. Morrisroe also gives a bizarre account of the older Mapplethorpe's torture and starvation of his pets monkey, Scrath, whose skull he kept as a souvenir after the animal's death. Too often, these disturbing incidents are attributed to the various social pressures that Mapplethrope faced: Catholicism, his parents, his background. To be sure, much of the artist's behavior was supposed to be part of the act; Mapplethorpe loved...
...camera. On Later, a half-hour chat show with a single guest, he uses it with irony, as a mirror to check how very fabulous he looks. Or, after the guest has uttered some mild inanity, Kinnear stares ahead mutely, as if he'd just been whacked on the skull by a bear paw but is too stoic to wince. It's this bland poise that keeps him from blinking when film stardom stares him in the face...
...OPERATING TABLE IN A small white room, a naked humanoid creature lies supine and inert--its stomach bulbous; its six fingers slightly curled; a deep, foot-long gash in its right leg. Two humans in white contamination suits circle the creature, slicing its chest, sawing its skull in half, removing internal organs. A third takes notes on a sheet of paper. Behind a window, a fourth person watches, hidden by a surgical mask. The only identifiable figure is the humanoid. Its face shows strain, perhaps pain. When the camera recording the event catches the creature's sightless gaze, an eerie...
...confessing his wrongdoing. In one such letter on July 24, Iguchi said there was "zero possibility" that Federal Reserve inspectors would find him out if the bank were to buy back some of the Treasury securities that he had illicitly sold to conceal his losses. The same hubris permeated skull sessions that allegedly took place when Iguchi met with a Daiwa managing director from Osaka and the head of the New York branch on July 28 and 29 in Manhattan's Park Lane Hotel. The indictment said the managing director insisted that the cover-up continue until Daiwa could report...
...helmet cracked, and that would have otherwise been my skull," she said. "Helmets are key to bike safety...