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...after Rickie's death. But soon he was jumping again. Last week he boarded the club's Cessna 182, the same plane from which his wife had plummeted. At 3,200 ft., he hesitated, then stepped into space. He rolled on his back, then indolently onto his stomach. In seconds, the horrified jumpmaster realized that Wasik had no intention of opening his parachute...
...guards who make them rage impotently until the patients beat the walls of the cages they can never leave. A psychiatrist orders a man to be force fed, then smokes a cigarette, dangling the ashes inches away from the funnel that is emptying food into the victim's stomach. A boy who claims that the institute is making his condition worse is answered with evasive jargon from a Kafkaesque staff. The 85-minute film offers no comment and no solution, but in its relentless expose of a present-day snake pit, it deserves to stand with works like Upton...
...film has already been seen by about 100,000 Englishmen in small cinemas throughout Britain. It was premiered at Lincoln Center last fall, and is now being distributed throughout the U.S. It is a stomach...
...home on a summertime Tom Sawyer adventure. It was part of growing up, a way to gain experience and nothing to be alarmed about. Sometimes the boy would be gone for a week or so, but generally his plans to join the circus ended about nightfall, when his empty stomach and the animal sounds near his woodsy hideout quickly convinced him that daddy's razorstrop was not so bad after...
Throw It at Him. Experts estimate that the odds against an angler simply spotting a broadbill on any given day are 10 to 1. Even then the odds against hooking the fish are 15 to 1. Swordfish have to be coddled into taking a bait; with a full stomach only the most dessert-happy sword can be tempted by mackerel or squid. Fishermen have been known to make ten or more passes before a lazing giant without achieving so much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait...