Word: spined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first thing is to straighten your spine," says Allen Ginsberg, as he starts his tai chi chuan, the Chinese exercises he recommends for healthful testicles and liver. With arms extended and hands as graceful as cobra heads, he begins the ritual steps, fluidly shifting his weight from one slippered foot to the other. The martial exercise is based on a subtle principle. "The aggressor is off balance," Ginsberg explains. "The person who is nonaggressive is in balance...
...handgun, wounding all four and shooting two in the back. Then he fled. According to the prosecution, Goetz intended to kill the teen- agers, although he did not consider himself to be in a life-threatening situation. One of the four, Darryl Cabey, 19, who was shot in the spine and is paralyzed from the waist down, slipped into a coma at the hospital last week and was listed in critical condition. Goetz is due in court this week to learn if he will be indicted. District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has refused to grant immunity to Goetz...
...European civilization simply makes no sense without its spiritual spine, the Bible. So say British Critic Bruce Bernard and Art Historian Sir Lawrence Gowing in The Bible and Its Painters (Macmillan; 300 pages; $24.95), an opinionated and amply illustrated survey of biblical themes in more than 200 paintings produced over six centuries. Rembrandt is, in Gowing's words, "the hero of this book" because he surpassed all artists in getting to the heart of the biblical vision: his works in this volume reach from the famous portrayal of Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac to a shadowy ascension of Jesus...
...chauvinistic patriotism. Theirs is a generous and mature patriotism, [not] thin and shrill." Ron Hayes, a Minnesota farm-management teacher, is seven years older than Wheeler, and just over the generational line. "When they play The Star-Spangled Banner" Hayes says, "I can still feel a chill up my spine. But I doubt if my kids are like that." Maybe, maybe not, but his two sons are in the service. Moreover, unselfconscious patriotic feeling seems rampant among teenagers...
...particularly painful because of the sensitive nerves in or near these organs. In the vast majority of cases, cancer pain can be alleviated with drug therapy, including narcotics like morphine or methadone. These may be administered by mouth, by injection into the muscle or directly into the spine via surgically implanted catheters. An implantable morphine pump that provides a continuous infusion of the drug is being tested for use by cancer patients. Unfortunately, patients may develop tolerance to narcotics, and their doctors often fail to provide high enough doses to keep pain...