Word: waists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...model. She is 5 ft. 8 in. tall, and she normally weighs 117 lbs. For the presentation of the James Galanos spring collection at Neiman- Marcus in Houston, she weighed 107 lbs. The look, the body for Galanos, is a flat front, a flat behind and no waist, she says. "His show is very prestigious. If you can do this one, you are automatically booked for everything. That is why everyone diets so hard beforehand...
...bell player generated mood music, and the Easter congregation of more than 4,000 joined in on Reach Out and Touch. As a 100-voice choir sang "Christ has risen," Cole-Whittaker materialized to applause and whistles. Tears streamed down her face, and two men held her by the waist to prevent enthusiasts from dragging her off the stage. "I no longer want to be a religious leader. I want to be myself," she declared. It was time, she added, to explore personal "un-limitation," which might include sitting on a rock in Hawaii to contemplate the universe...
...sure sign of deceit, Ekman says, is the presence of a "leakage emblem," the unconscious misuse of a common symbolic gesture, such as delivering an A- O.K. sign (thumb to forefinger, making a circle) from below the waist instead of above it, or producing a one-shoulder shrug. "A liar can show these leakage emblems again and again," Ekman writes, "and usually neither the liar nor the victim will notice them." Another finding: the use of gestures to illustrate speech, stabbing the air or making a circle in space, often falls off dramatically when a person is lying. (Lie spotters...
...over to Cabey, who was sprawled on the seat, perhaps playing possum. "You seem to be doing all right," Goetz said. "Here's another." That fifth and last bullet, one of two expanding dumdum slugs in the revolver, may have severed Cabey's spinal cord, paralyzing him from the waist down. In one of the case's many oddities, Flores disputes Goetz's account of what happened with Cabey. "He didn't shoot the kid a second time. He didn't say anything either...
Tehran too was shaken by a bomb blast. As Iran's President Seyed Ali Khamene'i was delivering a speech at the University of Tehran, a terrorist detonated a homemade bomb strapped around his waist, killing himself and five other people. The President, who escaped unhurt, blamed the attack on Iran's own Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas, who are trying to overthrow the country's leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...