Word: wounded
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...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...
Which brings us back to a final comparison with In the Line of Fire. Both these movies are tightly wound duels between vividly contrasting characters who match up only in the quality of their intelligence. Both more than satisfy the most primitive demand of the action genre, which is, of course, for plenty of action. But unlike most films of their kind these days, they do not feel machine-made. They take the time (and it doesn't require much) for the digressions that enlist real concern -- not just in what's going to happen next, but in the fates...
...from his long-dead ancestors. The crowd sees nothing of his movements, but it knows the ritual: lifted into the next world by hallucinogenic drugs, the king will take an obsidian blade or the spine of a stingray, pierce his own penis, and then draw a rope through the wound, letting the blood drip onto bits of bark paper. Then he will take the bark and set it afire, and out of the rising smoke a vision of a serpent will appear...
...mingling in front of a house. "We were just having a party, a birthday party," says one, "when these guys drive by and start shooting at us." Twenty minutes later and only blocks away, Foster comes upon a teenage boy being treated by an ambulance team for a gunshot wound in the arm. "It's so sad," he says. "I remember when you could settle things with fisticuffs. Man, that's antiquated...
...surprises a burglary suspect in a warehouse; he attacks her savagely, then she shoots him in self-defense. When Fox censors objected to the violence, Langley was forced to make drastic excisions. "It was absurd," he says. "The pressure was on us to de-emphasize the attack, so you wound up showing her shooting him without any motivation." Langley, like many others in Hollywood, knows the reason for this outbreak of squeamishness: the networks have suddenly got religion on the subject of violence...