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...body of a woman, bloated with decay. She had a purple rose tattooed on her left wrist. Another tattoo, a cross of leaves, adorned her hip. Rifkin admitted to picking up the woman -- a prostitute, he said matter- of-factly -- in Manhattan the previous week. She got into his mother's car. They had sex. He strangled her. Now he was on his way to Republic Airport in East Farmingdale to dispose of her corpse...
...epidemic hit the team in mid-season, knocking Fraiberg out of the Howe Cup. Injuries slowed training schedules. Desai, the team's top player, developed tendonitis in her wrist...
Social Studies, second period, is different. Mr. Goode, usually grinning, begins class by holding his left wrist above his head and looking at his watch. "Fifteen seconds," he says. The students have 15 seconds to quiet themselves and clear their desks for a test; otherwise, they lose "freebies," excuses from detention...
Combining James Brown dance moves with a classic late 70s aesthetic, Norcott was quite the Funk Monk. He has a commanding stage presence, cool sunglasses, and can throw a frisbee the length of the Dunster dining hall with the flick of a wrist. Norcott spoke lines of deep meaning; such rhymes as "I'm just a man with soulful intentions, I've crossed the bridge to unmistaken conventions" deserve painstaking exegesis to unlock their message for a contemporary audience...
...strength. Le Cirque evokes the three best responses from a circus audience: "Gee, that clown's funny!" (when Rene Bazinet, a talking mime, gets caught in a bathroom that becomes an aquarium); "Hey, the human body can't do that!" (when one man climbs a Chinese pole on sheer wrist power or descends using only his thighs); and "Ooooh, that's beautiful!" (when four aerialists do a bungee-cord ballet). But no artiste is allowed to be a specialist. All must do double duty, as Harlequins or chorus girls, to fit into the precise, giddy scheme devised by director Franco...