Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effects of their children's upbringing becomes apparent. The older child, Daniel, is thrust against his parents perversities. Paul and Rochelle parade in the nude to show their children the natural beauty of the body, or drag them to a concert where reactionary demonstrators break Paul`s arm. When his parents die, Daniel assumes responsibility for his sister all too readily, as if he has been a parent-in-training all his life, Little Susan can think of her real parents only as gods, and all American institutions as similar to the jails which held her apart from them...
...have not done a show together in eleven years or spoken privately in twelve. In point of fact, they loathe each other. Clark bears a particular grudge, because Lewis used to finger-poke him in the chest and spray him with saliva during their act. But the potent arm of CBS-TV reunites them to take part in a history-of -comedy spectacular...
...Randers wait in mingled hope and dread for word of Sergeant First Class Donald Rander of Army Intelligence, captured at Hue on Feb. 1, 1968. Shortly thereafter two fellow soldiers who escaped reported that he had been wounded in the arm but was alive in a Viet Cong prison camp in South Viet Nam. There has been no word from Rander in five years. So his women wait, worry and try to pretend that there is holly in their hearts...
...tests, Wagner used not only such household devices as tape measures but also four viselike instruments of his own invention that vaguely resemble medieval torture machines. Each was designed to measure the flexibility of some part of the hand or lower arm while preventing any movement in the other parts. Though he has not yet completed his studies, Wagner is convinced that the greater dexterity of professional musicians is hereditary and does not come from their years of practice. If it came from practice, he argues, then musicians with the same training would not have such differing degrees of dexterity...
...music teachers to "locate the exact physical shortcoming of a student and work out compensatory techniques." A pianist with a "stiff" finger, for example, could make more use of an adjacent note. Another result of his research, he maintains, is confirmation that the recurrent inflammations of the hand and arm suffered by musicians are the result of overtaxing their native skills-a musical variation on tennis elbow, football knee and surfer's knob...