Word: whiplash
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...funk master; from a stroke; in Los Angeles. After popping a blood vessel in his neck during a performance, the "Super Freak" singer felt numb on his right side. Doctors expect a full recovery from the ailment, brought on, said James' spokesman, by "rock-'n'-roll neck--the rhythmic whiplash motion of the head and neck...
While the politicians fiddled, the economy was decomposing. The ruble, bouncing wildly from rate to rate and inflicting on traders what they call "ruble whiplash," has lost half its value in the past month. Prices are heading skyward. Domestic products are--at long last--in greater demand, but their prices are up so high that they have officially crossed the threshold of hyperinflation. In August monthly inflation jumped to 15%, the biggest increase in more than four years...
Fans and air conditioning work just fine on those sweltering weekend days when you can hibernate indoors, but eventually you need to venture outside. The Personal Cooling System from the Sharper Image ($49) may look like a whiplash collar, but it works. Just wrap it around your neck and let its aluminum plates, cooled by water and a fan, refresh...
...taking care of business while the men are elsewhere is anything new." Though Nelson argues convincingly that black women need to raise a collective howl of rage, her disorganized mix of social and political commentary, personal story and random musings on everything from menopause to high heels produces a whiplash effect...
...relies heavily upon expression and delivery, and this cast rises magnificently to the occasion. They're all so good that it's difficult--if not impossible--to pick out particular stars. Among the men folk, it's a toss-up between Erik Amblad '98-'99 as the jovial but whiplash-afflicted and increasingly harried tax analyst Lenny Ganz, who takes over from Ken as mise-en-scene of "keeping up appearances," and Jesse J. Hawkes '99 as the psychotherapist Ernie Cusack, who's at once the shrewdest and the farthest off-base of the entire party...