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...plastic can. Eventually, he hands the sticks off to a buddy sitting on a bench just behind their makeshift stage. Four young men take turns playing the cans, until a cop on horseback approaches. The policeman makes a signal with his hand that looks like he's cutting his throat. The drummers are suddenly silent, focusing their attention on the cop's approach...
...juvenile reported that her mother beat her with a shoe repeatedly, made threats and held a knife to her throat. The child is now living with her aunt...
...last January, the authorities skipped the usual beating. Instead, security agents poked the young woman with a 2-ft.-long shock baton whose electric jolts eventually left her unconscious. When Chinese prison guards tired of kicking Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, they shoved a black clublike shock baton down his throat and charged it up. The current that raced through his body left him crumpled on the floor "in a pool of blood and excrement and in extreme pain," he recalls. In Lebanon interrogators employ the "Flying Carpet": a procedure during which an electric rod is shoved under the genitals...
...Rockwell International Corp. employee who inspected parts used to build spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center. In her suit, Weinsheimer said that over an eight-month period, a co-worker frequently asked that she "suck him," grabbed her crotch and breasts and once held a knife to her throat. Another colleague allegedly touched his penis to her hand when she was looking away. Even so, a federal court ruled against her, in part because the judge thought the harassment wasn't severe enough. "The comments, in both their nature and their causes, were apparently commonplace and routine," the judge wrote...
Take for example the image of a young black girl lording over a kneeling woman, possibly her mistress. The girl appears to be pinching the woman's nose while holding some knife or saw to her throat. The characters are so finely drawn that we can make out the contour of the girl's toenail, but though we see one foot we're unsure of where the other falls. Similarly, we can't determine the relationship of blade to neck, the difference between "grazing" and "penetrating" so important to the woman's life and our understanding. These spatial contiguities...