Word: spined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter embarrassed the government. The Defense Ministry called the statement "spine-chilling and depressing," and Calvo-Sotelo even summoned the papal nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Innocenti, to enlist his aid in silencing the bishops. Innocenti declined. Although the letter accurately reflected widespread fears in Spain, it contradicted the image of calm, steady helmsmanship that Calvo-Sotelo has sought to project since the attempted coup. But the army's brooding presence is undeniable-and, in at least temporarily stifling political debate, it may have lengthened Calvo-Sotelo's lease on office...
Horror buffs rarely debate metaphysics; they want a director to deliver the chills-down-your-spine, heart-in-your-throat, you-can't-watch-but-you-daren't-leave goods. Cronenberg delivers. When the body of one of his characters turns on its owner, it does so with a sanguinary vengeance. In Scanners, the Force flings men against walls, drives them to shotgun suicide, creeps inside their muscles and works its way out. This last special effect is a gloss of the sequence in Altered States in which William Hurt's face and arms assumed grotesque simian...
...supremely elegant but lacks the sonorous grandeur that audiences have come to admire in a Piatigorsky or a Rostropovich. Some might attribute this to the French tradition of string playing, but it may also be due to a congenital curvature of Ma's spine. Complex surgery last spring corrected the condition...
...about 20 million operations are performed in the U.S. Though surgeons claim that at most only 1% of these are unnecessary, some observers put the figure at more than 15%. Among the procedures said to be the most overdone: hysterectomies, tonsillectomies, gall bladder removals and operations on the the spine. To cut down on excessive use of the scalpel and, not incidentally, soaring medical-care costs, in the past few years federal agencies and insurance companies have been urging patients to get an independent second opinion whenever nonemergency surgery is recommended. Now comes the surprising suggestion that second opinions...
...sense, the investigators do know more about their quarry than most man hunters. The ripper has not only mailed three gloating letters to the police and press, but also sent, 17 months ago, a taunting, spine-chilling two-minute-long tape recording that promises further killings to come. But despite poster reproductions of portions of the letters and a special phone number that allows a caller to hear the tape, no one has admitted recognizing his handwriting or distinctive Sunderland accent. Now the latest killing and the lack of any breakthrough by the West Yorkshire police is prompting renewed public...