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...when his girlfriend Susan Silverman senses trouble. She speaks: "You're looking all choked up and strange, Slugger." He explains sheepishly that he is reading a detective story. "Yes ... ?" "Well, so there's this wounded guy, and suddenly the detective whips off, um, her panty hose and makes a tourniquet to stop the bleeding." Spenser's consort, the reader supposes, suggests Agatha Christie and counseling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Cops with Machisma | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

There was the time that one of the dinosaurs bit off Josh Lieb's legs 10 minutes before the curtain was supposed to go up, and we had to fashion a tourniquet out of Seth Mnookin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Director's Notes on Jurassic Park | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...then there was the time that Josh Lieb bit off one of the dinosaurs' legs nine minutes before the curtain was supposed to go up, and we had to fashion a tourniquet out of Seth Mnookin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Director's Notes on Jurassic Park | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...then there was the time that Seth Mnookin punched me in the nose for taking his wig eight minutes before the curtain was supposed to go up, and we had to fashion a tourniquet out of Seth Mnookin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Director's Notes on Jurassic Park | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...boots, for example, are designed to cut off all blood circulation below the shin. They are so efficient at this purpose that campers routinely take them on nature hikes in case of snake bites, as in, "No need to get a tourniquet, dear, just slip on this ski boot...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Vermont is for Masochists | 2/16/1989 | See Source »

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