Gerstein suggests avoiding the creepy areas of the mouth and eyes, and instead, highlighting more taut areas, like the center of the eye, or the cheekbones.
He would also play around with a makeshift instrument called a diddley bow, which was a wire attached to a house that a person could pull taut and hit with a stick, altering the pitch with a bottle that slides along the wire.
Okay, first, we cross this end over here and then we make a loop, and then another loop and then you sort of pull it through, I'm guessing and then you just -- ready? Yank it taut.
The water was white where his tail beat it and three-quarters of his body was clear above the water when the rope came taut, shivered, and then snapped.
When the heart contracts, that papillary muscle keeps the chordae tendineae taut; and both of these help to prevent regurgitation of blood back into the atrium, allowing it to only flow out the next valve.