IN 1963, on a trip to Lima, Peru, the jeweler Arline Fisch saw a glorious gold hand-and-arm sheath in a museum, the work of a Chimu goldsmith around the year 1000.
Designers who routinely cater to stringy adolescents, or parade arm-baring sheaths that only Michelle Obama could love, suddenly seemed to get that their most devoted clients — women well over 40 with upscale tastes and incomes to match — view the first lady's biceps with serious pangs of envy.
She bares her famous arms in cutaway sheaths, she belts her narrow back and slim waist, wears her hemlines just below the knee to show stockingless shapely calves and ankles.
When, as Shaw wrote, "the warm weather comes" and the streets of the city were filled with women in shifts and shirtwaists and tunics and baby-dolls and sheaths, arms and legs bared, the effect they had on the urban landscape was a glorious thing.
At the time of arterial sheath insertion for coronary angiography and prior to administration of heparin, a blood sample was drawn from the side arm of the sheath and anticoagulated with sodium EDTA, placed on ice, and processed within 30 minutes of retrieval.
We estimate that 90 95% of the nuclei in the dissected gonad arms are germline (∼325 germ cells per gonad arm vs. 10 somatic sheath cells and ≤24 somatic spermathecal cells; see www.wormatlas.org, Qiao et al. 1995).
The gonad arms comprise somatic sheath cells that house a proliferative germline with a complex membrane architecture.
Finally, in lin-41 null mutants, we observed large apoptotic cell corpses in the proximal gonad arm that are engulfed by sheath cells, as revealed by acridine orange staining.
If the sheath was inserted into your arm or wrist, it will be removed and the site will be bandaged.
She may be sticking with the punchy one-word titles, but "Demonic" is her first book since "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1998) to deviate from the standard cover image of Coulter in a cocktail sheath, sinewy arms usually displayed in a manner that seems to challenge Michelle Obama's trainer to a duel.
