Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...include enough protection for pregnant women. Other opponents of the bill claim that the bill infringes on the right of physicians to practice medicine without fear of government intrusion. The technique, performed about 200 times a year, involves partially delivering the fetus, and then collapsing and draining its skull contents. The process is an "offense to the conscience of mankind," said Florida Republican Representative Charles Canady, one of the bill's supporters who believe the measure has wide public support in this election year. "The whole push is part of the pro-life movement to eliminate abortion, grisly procedure...
Parents who tool kids around in shopping carts, consider this. A study of children treated for shopping-cart injuries finds that 40% of the time the carts--even ones with safety features, like restraining belts--tipped over, causing head injuries, lacerations and skull fractures...
...produced during his life-time. The ease with which Picasso crosses media is evident in these drypoint and line-etching pieces. "The Watering-Place" (1905) is a small, lyrical piece, with its hyper-sparse and beautifully interwoven lines. The bold, thick black lines of "Goat Skull on Table" (1952) appear as if carved into a weighty physical object...
...dead returned to inhabit new bodies? Hasselbach's zombie-like voice, preserved to creepy effect by American co-author Tom Reiss, can almost make you think so. "As he lay on the ground, Frank and I kicked him in the neck, in the stomach, in the face, in the skull...and I was thinking, as I kicked, Sure, his bones are breaking beneath my feet...
...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...