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...SPINE-TINGLING MUSIC eerily permeates the scene. Slow, relentless footsteps pulse onward. Somewhere a shutter creaks in the wind. Suddenly, thunder splits the air. A flash of blinding lightning reveals a veiled figure, in its hand a weapon, a knife that brutally, inexpicably, and fatally goes slash in the night...
...family business, changing and repairing tires, while Leticia, 14, helps keep the books. The girls also do many of the household chores, because their mother badly twisted her back five years ago while lifting boxes at a local garment factory. Workmen's compensation paid for surgery on her spine, and her resident's status was never at issue...
Carlton Johnson was suffering from spina bifida, a condition in which the spine is not closed, as an infant at Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City in 1981. On the advice of hospital doctors, his parents did not request corrective surgery. Carlton survived, thanks in part to a later operation, but is now mentally retarded. Last week the hospital was accused of withholding treatment from a number of afflicted infants based on "quality of life" considerations, thus causing the death of 24 babies...
Altogether, the quake shook an area stretching more than 1,000 miles along Chile's mountainous spine both north and south of Santiago. At its epicenter, near the village of Algarrobo, it officially measured more than 8 on the Richter scale; geologists compared it in magnitude with the disastrous 1960 Chile quake, which killed almost 6,000. In some places, including the port of San Antonio, three-quarters or more of the buildings were no longer habitable. In San Bernardo, five died when a church wall collapsed on a Roman Catholic $ congregation. Said Juan Andres Bravo, who had been helping...
...theatre. The film bullies you in the same way the O'Brien bullies Winston, breaking down your resistance and forcing you to despair. When Winston cracks under the threat of the rat cage and screams "Do to Julia," the actual sound of the cry sends shivers up your spine in a way that mere printed words cannot...