Word: wrists
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...slab room, dingy as a tenement, yet spattered with paint as cheerfully as a Jackson Pollock canvas. The only ornament is a poster of the slab boys' hero, the rebel without a cause, James Dean. Standing beneath it, a young man studiously paints a watch onto his wrist. He soon makes plain what the audience guesses: in this knockabout environment, even a watch is an unattainable badge of advancement...
...Operina. Like much Western writing since antiquity, this simplified italic is written with a broad-edged pen, yielding a pleasing alternation of thick and thin lines, depending on the angle of the stroke. It is also easy to write because it follows the natural movement of the wrist. The writer need only obey the pen to create an even rhythm and beautiful form...
...only goal in the final 20 was a Scott Fusco wrist shot from the slot right off a faceoff, four seconds into a power play at the 6:30 mark...
...avid jogger, Danchy might have taken the opportunity to get in a few miles at Fresh Pond, but a broken wrist suffered from a fall on ice last year has left him "a little bit paranoid...
...orderly person who is ejected from a public restaurant. The rest of the column was devoted to a classic example of what O'Keeffe so greatly fears: a 750-word, clinical rundown on a Chinese restaurant, including the likeliest days to get a decent meal and a wrist-slap for the rest rooms...