Word: victimizer
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First described 3,800 years ago in Mesopotamia, rabies has always inspired a special terror because of the gruesome and inexorable way it progresses once it takes hold of a victim. It attacks the nervous system, producing symptoms such as irrational furies, fearfulness and foaming at the mouth. The difficulty that patients have in swallowing water or food led to the disease's other common name: hydrophobia. Since the virus moves through the body inside nerve tissue rather than the blood, the disease triggers no antibodies and can't be detected during its incubation. Once it reaches the brain, death...
...bitten or otherwise exposed, the victim should wash the wound immediately with soap and water and then get medical help. The rabies vaccination, first developed by Louis Pasteur in 1885, used to be an extremely painful series of 14 to 21 shots in the abdomen. In recent years, a much gentler but equally effective set of five shots in the arm has become available...
...have a foppish quality and a refinement surprising for someone in their line of work. In one nice mise-en-scene bit Henriksen plays a Beethoven sonata in the drawing room of his estate while another homeless man is recruited for the next hunt. Henriksen's crony questions the victim about his finances and relatives. Each answer is intercut with shots of Henricksen and his opulent estate...
...religious character of the services. The Christianized West has long condemned suicide.. In antithesis to the pagan heroic ideal, the act is associated with a great evil, something more awful even the taking another's life; it is the single irrevocable sin. Yet Gardini becomes a victim, and Cagliari as well, both assassinated by politics...
Politeness makes sense to the politicos. Neither this city nor its suburbs have any native industry--you won't find many meat-packing plants in Georgetown or in posh Falls Church, Va., Potomac, Md.--and the bird-to-victim ration is high...