Word: bonelessness
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...favorite targets on the Opposition benches. Ramsay MacDonald was "the boneless wonder," Clement Attlee was "a sheep in sheep's clothing." When the postwar Labor government began measuring its home-building program in terms of "accommodation units," Churchill sang mockingly: "Accommodation unit, sweet accommodation unit, there's no place like accommodation unit...
...clown, psychologically foiling the world by supplying her own banana peels to slip on. Her face is a choppy sea of doubletalk, and her talk tries to take back what her face just said. She is an anthology of the awkward graces, all knees and elbows, or else a boneless wonder, a seal doing an unbalancing act. All her devices are attention-getting devices and point astutely to the gnawing doubt of self at the heart of clowning. Barbra Streisand could be a gawkish version of Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, except that all the Tramp usually wanted...
Nearly all the works on view came from widely scattered members of the artist's family, and almost half of them have never before been seen by the public. Though Lautrec's Parisian period-the era of the raffish La Goulue. Valentin the Boneless, and high-kicking Jane Avril-was largely responsible for his fame, it is apparent that his childhood on the family estate in southern France shaped his destiny. The show in Rennes is a warmhearted family album of portraits and sketches of the people and things that surrounded the crippled painter after he fell...
...word for serpent. It is 100 ft. long, 5 ft. in diameter, and made of 200 Ibs. of strong nylon fabric and about a ton of synthetic rubber. Partially filled to keep the skin relaxed, it carries 10,000 gallons of fluid and slips through the water like a boneless whale with a flattish top 18 in. above the surface...
...corner, bundled like wet clothes and crowned with a cookie plate, a boneless, burnt-browed young man passed one reverent paw across his navel and blessed...