I'm not being falsely self-deprecating, but suggesting that the underlying point of Stone's role here — and in pretty much every other movie of hers, notably "Easy A" and "Crazy, Stupid, Love" — is that intellectual achievements aren't enough without the personality and the social aplomb to inform them with real-world experience — without the ability to walk on the wild side.
A botched hanging that fails to snap the neck cleanly is cruel and unusual punishment indeed: too short a drop can strangle the prisoner; too long, take his head off.The reader samples both grim fates in detail, for Mr Estleman has done impeccable homework on the finer points of what Stone would regard as a lost art.
In France a developed type of bar tracery with cusped circles (having pointed bars of stone projecting in toward the centre of the circle) was executed in the apse chapels of Reims Cathedral (prior to 1230).
To make the point, scores of stone-throwing youths chanted "people don't bow down, it's time again for revolution" as a petrol bomb set fire to a police officer in the heart of Athens.
The most distinctive artifact type of this horizon is the Clovis Fluted projectile point, a lanceolate point of chipped stone that has had one or more longitudinal flakes struck from the base of each flat face.
Recent work has proposed a series of ballistically-significant morphological characteristics of stone points that yield information about their potential use.
The Fauresmith industry, named for the town of Fauresmith, Free State province, South Africa, is characterized by small hand axes and cleavers and by numerous flake tools, including triangular projectile points of classic Levalloisian stone-flaking technique.
One experienced emergency attending physician was responsible for the detection of ureteral stone using point-of-care ultrasound.
Below that, in older rocks, they uncovered scores of stone point fragments, but no whole spearheads.
Its experimental construction was therefore a major turning-point in the evolution of stone architecture.
