Notably, Ferdinand's gift of a
dead man's hand echoes the couple's clasped hands in act 1.
Switching to the Officer's Model-style I had the
Dead Man's Hand. It was necessary to spend about a minute with a Dremel tool to relieve the top of the back of the left grip panel and also open up the notch ever so slightly for the free operation of the magazine release.
His accomplices had in the hole a
dead man's hand - plus his legs, his head, his torso...
He was holding two black aces, two black eights and the jack of diamonds - known to this day as "the
dead man's hand".
He put the
dead man's hand on to the table - two aces and two eights.
ANSWERS: 1 Dr Crippen; 2 Dome shaped; 3 Yuri Andropov; 4 Nigel Mansell; 5 Los Angeles; 6 Yellow; 7
Dead Man's Hand; 8 Severus Snape; 9 Daphne; 10 My Heart
Ian Douglas McAteer, 44, was jailed after the murder of drug dealer Warren Selkirk who was shot at point-blank range at Crosby marina before the killer put a bag of dog excrement in the
dead man's hand. Selkirk's two children were in his car nearby at the time of the murder.
In "
Dead Man's Hand Revisited," Brummels uses a snowstorm to evoke approaching death:
The last camera shot is a look at the placid river, which is broken by the sudden emergence of the
dead man's hand. One of the campers awakes in terror.
If one factors in as well the various properties (numerous severed heads, a
dead man's hand, detachable legs, limbs as a dinner course), the violated body can be a vivid presence onstage.
A respectful dissent from the conclusions of John Russell Brown, particularly concerning act 4, scene 1, the scene in which the crazed Ferdinand offers the Duchess a
dead man's hand, produces the quietly triumphant conclusion that "the steady, overall illumination of the amphitheaters and halls, far from imposing a restriction on the actors and playwrights, meant that even in scenes of pretended darkness, the audience could see and respond to the visual media of the actors' craft" (232).
A SURGEON who transplanted a
dead man's hand on to a living patient has branded him a liar.
Scratch the surface of the lingo and you find poker lore if not history: claim the pot with "a
dead man's hand," and you conjure Wild Bill Hickok, who was holding a full house of aces over eights (three aces and two eights) when a bullet rendered him poker's first tabletop fatality.
Dead Man's Hand is cowboy bop and Dragonfly is a hippy shake on bad acid.