Word: arching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...except in jerky petits pas. There were children suffering from nerve disorders similar to Parkinsonism. During an attack, a pretty girl of eleven was doubled up, her whole body distorted and shaking. A boy the same age was bent backwards; eventually, said Dr. Cooper, his back and legs might arch until his head touched his heels...
...Notorious Landlady. "Oyme jus' the parlor mide," says Kim Novak in her best Berlitz cockney. "Are you a sleep-in maid?" asks arch Jack Lemmon, with his eyes doing the twist. "Coo, yew Yanks do kum raht aout wiv it, don't yew?" wuffles the new Eliza Doolittle. "Well, most of it, anyway," says Lemmon, a film comedian who knows how to throw away a line before it deserts...
...After eleven years of one-man rule by irascible Clarence (Clancy) Sayen, the 14,000-member Air Line Pilots Association chose a new president: mild-mannered Charles Homer Ruby, 52. Backed by retiring President Sayen as a way of freezing out his arch-opponent, ALPA First Vice President John Carroll, Ruby is a onetime mechanic who has logged 20,000 flying hours in everything from chugging J-1s to jet-powered DC-8s, ranks No. 2 on National Airlines' seniority list. He inherits a Sayen-created impasse. The convention that elected Ruby also voted to continue the two-year...
...Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. A fine fresh comedy on a tired subject, nonconformism. As the arch-nonconformist, Jason Robards Jr. is beset by a captivating set of plodballs and an irresistible sweetie named Sandy Dennis...
...Thousand Clowns, by Herb Gardner. A fine fresh comedy on a tired subject, nonconformism. As the arch-nonconformist, Jason Robards Jr. is beset by a captivating set of plodballs, and an irresistible sweetie named Sandy Dennis...