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...face of FM gossip: stinging rumor, swollen innuendo, ink-stained navel-gazing...
...also led the team in stitches—she had five, just over her upper lip—as well as head bumps, swollen noses and vanished contact lenses...
...face of FM gossip: stinging rumor, swollen innuendo...
...pair, but there have been ample injuries along the way—and Church’s broken nose pales in comparison to the psychic wounds both suffer. Or consider Election, Payne’s 1999 film, the last third of which Matthew Broderick spends with an enormously, excruciatingly swollen bee sting on his face and spiraling shame in his soul. Payne’s films are funny, and they often dance with profundity, but they can also be very painful to watch—and, one imagines, even more painful to live through for his characters...
...lemons and potatoes on their farm, but Hadi loves being a soldier. "I won't give up my job because of a little terrorist," he says in his office as his soldiers march outside in the blazing sun. Three weeks after Hadi was tortured, his feet are still too swollen to fit into shoes, so he wears a pair of worn house slippers as he commands his men. Thick crimson scars on his legs are a constant reminder of the risk he takes every day, but Hadi is not deterred. "It is my country," he says. Nonetheless, Hadi...