Word: spined
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Lose an arm or your legs, or the use of your spine, and it's awful. But for many quadriplegics, there's still lots left: heart, guts and competitive instinct. The boldest among them engage in a fearsome sport called quad rugby--or murderball. Strapped into supercharged Mad Max wheelchairs, two teams of four players bang metal and fight like hell. The goal, says one: "Kill the man with the ball...
...thick with Florida heat and the smell of Budweiser and Cuban cigars, but a chill ran down my skinny little spine when I watched those boys pile onto each other, a writhing mass of heroic, euphoric red, and on that day I fell in love...
Boldly designed -- the front, back and spine are without identifying text -- Stevens uses a painstaking cross-hatched style to bring out shades and textures from the black and white palette. Its detailed, photo-based images and its pitch-perfect, "overheard" dialogue, give "Guilty" the sense of a verite documentary. Even minor characters seem alive, like Mark's acid-tongued work mate who asks, "If she's your 'friend,' when was the last time you hung out with her since you broke up?" Fans of Richard Linklater will immediately pick up on the similarities between "Guilty" and the director's smartly...
...time die-hard fans were trekking out to see Revenge of the Sith for the fifth time, others had ditched their Yoda suits to blog about the film's politics. Some lambasted Lucas for a purported liberal agenda that seems to equate Bush with the dark side. "Grow a spine and boycott the movie," argued a right-wing fan on BLOGS FOR BUSH. While conservatives raged, others defended the film. "Get a life!" said a posting on CENTERFIELD. "It isn't Hollywood's fault there aren't any talented right-wing filmmakers." The verdict from INSTAPUNDIT? Politically neutral but weak...
...advantage of it before the gods get wise and call in the debt,” Morrow writes with a flourish. But JFK himself was certainly not spared the gods’ wrath: he suffered from Addison’s disease, the treatments for which would painfully deteriorate his spine...