Word: swollenness
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...only thing in Hollywood more interesting than Owen Wilson's career may be Owen Wilson's nose. It's a wonder to behold: a twisting, swollen ski slope; a special effect that seems to expand and change angles with the light. He broke it first in ninth grade, then again playing intramural football at the University of Texas. Has he considered having it fixed? "I get bombarded with those questions," he says. "I must look like a freak, but if I were to change it I would get so much grief from my brothers...
...album. You almost feel like you’re overhearing Yorke singing himself to sleep in his hotel room after the show: “I’ll drown my beliefs / To have you be in peace / I’ll dress like your niece / To wash your swollen feet / Just don’t leave, don’t leave.” In the end, this is an album that fans will love, and that will continue to mystify the uninitiated, which may be exactly what Yorke and his homeboys intended...
Reality struck one morning when Gagnon woke with small, red, swollen spots on his finger, cheek and shoulder. It was only after a bit of thinking that he associated the spots with the bat and high-tailed it to UHS. “They told me they weren’t bat bites, but that I could get rabies from even sleeping in the same room as the bat,” says Gagnon. He is now getting rabies shots which he describes...
...None too soon, it turned out. When I got home, my abdomen was swollen, my stomach, hips and lower back aching. I called the acupuncturist, who told me that pain was good, a sure sign that qi, the Eastern word for life force, was at work. When, the next morning I was still hurting, I went to my doctor, who performed a sonogram that showed that my abdomen was filled with fluid. The needles, it turned out, had penetrated the abdominal wall and entered the pelvic cavity. What's more, they had been placed perilously close to the abdominal aorta...
...walking, some very interesting things start to happen. Blood, for instance, begins to pool in hands hanging down at the sides—and the praise-His-name gesture that most of the walkers adopted was an attempt to drain some of that back into the body, avoiding perpetually swollen, numbed hands...