Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...language of Reetchie's monologues is vivid--"Brains boiling bubbling in a chalky skull"; "while the sun eats away my eyelids." But much of it is the musing of someone who is still in a state of shock. Only the condition, brutally emphasized, comes through. Reetchie does not. Even the name is obscure; only its sound is clear...
...therapy and treatment for what she calls "too many red corpuscles," the Miami cops extradited Melvin Powers, 23, Mossler's burly nephew. As police told it, Powers, who was Candace's longtime lover, jetted over from Houston the day before the murder, crushed his uncle's skull with a king-size Coke bottle and jetted home next morning. Said Candace on hearing the charge: "Oh, pooh!" Last month a Miami grand jury indicted Mel for murder-and Candace, too. Voluntarily rising from her Mayo bed, Candace wound up in jail with Mel, pending trial in November. "This...
...Sean F. Mullan begins with a simple injection of anesthetic into the side of the neck, just below the skull-one place where the spinal cord and its multiplex nerve cables are not completely encased in bone. Then he inserts a hollow, stainless-steel needle, only one hundredth of an inch in diameter, and guides the needle toward the nerves he wants to deaden with the aid of instant X rays that an assistant hands to him every ten seconds. One group of nerve fibers in the spinal cord serves the legs, another the trunk, and a third the arms...
...gloomy judgments have tempted critics to the conclusion that Kazantzakis was even more nihilistic than Nietzsche, and this book can support that view. God is variously defined as a bull, a "bluebird with red talons," the "supreme uncertainty." "Life's true face," says Kazantzakis, "is the skull." The place to build one's home is on the brim of the abyss...
Among the whites near Whatley were hecklers throwing rocks and bottles at Negroes in passing cars. There is no evidence that Whatley was one of the raucous rubes. Then, from one of the target cars, gunfire blazed. Two .38-cal. slugs smashed into Whatley's skull. He died in a hospital less than three hours later...