Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose recent ragbag memoirs spill prematurely a lot of what seem to be real family beans. The beans, after all, are everyone's family beans, only easier to see: mothers-in-law, problem children, alcohol, a taste for money (as someone told me, "The Carters are not a bit worse than the Kennedys; the Kennedys just have more cashmere sweaters"). No, the deep shifts sensed and regretted by natives are attributable not to one local boy but to history. The outspoken Carters may have speeded ventilation; but the bleeding holes in the oldest foundations are the same holes rammed...
...first quake struck shortly before dawn, a strong, 6.3 nimbler that shook Mexico City a bit and unsettled the populace but inflicted no major damage. The really big quake hit nine hours later, when Pope John Paul II arrived at an airport named for a Mexican President famed for promulgating harsh anti-Catholic laws. John Paul had chosen to make this, his first international journey, to open a critical meeting of bishops from the length of Latin America that will provide the first major look at the policies of his fledgling papacy...
Bassett has been able to avoid surgery entirely in some cases by resorting to a bit of electromagnetic prestidigitation. He attaches a set of electrical coils, like those in a small motor, on the outside of the cast directly around the region of the break. In that way he is able to induce an electrical current within the bone. The treatment requires only a 10-volt portable powerpack, can be operated by the patient at home, and is continued for about the same two to four months as Brighton's method...
...pose successively as a French courtesan, a cockney seamstress and an old beggar. Down turns each impersonation into a polished comic nugget; she swings effortlessly in and out of her various roles. Her scenes as Miriam are just as funny: in the film's best bit, Down turns the act of shaving Connery's neck into a delicate game of lovers' oneupmanship. Yet this actress is not merely another talented comedienne: she also has the voluptuous figure and classic features of an oldtime movie star. When she strips down to black silk undies and slithers under...
...audience. As Pompey the whoremaster (Mark Cartier) gives the audience a tour of the riff-raff in the prison, he opens trapdoors in the stage floor which serve as cell doors--and long arms reach out, grabbing for him, trying to drag him down. It's a good bit of stage business, and it's also an eerie picture of the starved world of Measure for Measure, sucking its inhabitants into the abyss...