But after a hundred or so pages, a book starts getting unwieldy, especially in those one-handed reading situations (lying walrus-like on my side in bed, strap-hanging on the subway, eating pretzels) and pages start flopping closed.
I think most people, when they think about palliative care, they imagine that I'm interviewing you right now and maybe you are in a bed, strapped up to a pain medication pump, or something like that.
Sitting up in bed, strapped into giant headphones the size of his cheeks, he listens to a Teach Yourself Cunnilingus tape that gets him rolling his tongue and sending his arms bowling through the empty air.
In the next room, I find Masako, lying on a bed strapped to a quietly purring machine as a nurse takes samples.
"I was … put on what looked like a hospital bed, and strapped down very tightly with belts.
Naturally, the memorial garden's focal point, a small cherry tree, is surrounded by a bed of strapping Montauk daisies.
The memorial garden's focal point, a small cherry tree, is surrounded by a bed of strapping Montauk daisies.
Describing the waterboarding, Abu Zubaydah wrote: "I was … put on what looked like a hospital bed, and strapped down very tightly with belts.
Streep has tried this before, with "Death Becomes Her" and "Postcards from the Edge," but I am not convinced, on the strength of the new film, that life becomes her not this relaxed brand of life, at any rate, which entails bouncing on the bed and strapping herself into thigh-high platform boots.
