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...Crimson margin of victory might have been greater had Celine Larkin not aggravated a thigh injury and forfeited her last battle. Larkin yesterday explained that her thigh is very swollen and that she cannot predict whether she will be out a few days or a few weeks with the injury...
This graphic display of savagery is one of several similar scenes that have appalled viewers of Equus who prefer the tamer stage version of the work. An equally testing juncture shows a kneeling Strang in his room, a makeshift harness with reins attached to his head, beating his right thigh with a stick that passes for a riding crop, as his appalled father looks on. Ultimately, the treatment of these segments may certainly seem gratuitous, but Lumet did not aim at merely shocking his viewer. Rather, he tries to underscore the intensity of his protagonist's monomania...
Still unconscious, Mirando was taken back to the operating room, where his femur (thigh bone) cracked as the surgeons tried to remove the dislocated prosthesis. Unwilling or unable to proceed further, the doctors sent out a rush call to the sales representative for the device, William MacKay, 34, who was playing golf at the time...
...frequently preserved because of their tough, protective enamel, tell even more. Animals that eat meat need teeth shaped to cut and slice; vegetarians need broad molars to chew their fibrous foods. Fossilized bones can indicate a creature's size and weight, just as the length of a thigh bone of a modern human can be used to accurately estimate his height. But often anthropologists must interpolate. Anatomists studying jawless skulls of Australopithecus robustus could not help noticing the creature's well-developed zygomatic arch, the structure to which the jaw muscles are anchored; they deduced that...
...Please wait. Will come with the number." Minutes later: "Frankfurt, here is Oscar X Ray. Three terrorists killed, one badly wounded." Mahmud and two others had been killed outright; the fourth, a woman, suffered a thigh wound and was taken to a Mogadishu hospital. One commando, one stewardess and four passengers were slightly injured. Except for the murdered Captain Schumann, all the hostages survived...