Word: ceilingward
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...HOLLYWOOD'S LATEST CATCHPHRASE, successor to "Let's do lunch," "My fax will talk to your fax," and "I'm gonna kill and eat your children." Now, when a mogul wants to give you the long view, he gazes ceilingward and intones...
...group of G.I.s peered blindly around trying to identify mysterious sounds, then put on infrared glasses and saw a jet plane overhead, a Jeep picking up a wounded man, an enemy infiltrator creeping toward them. In another room a model missile aircompressor system went whoomp, shooting a miniature missile ceilingward. In a third, a miniature carbon-dioxide plant emitted a cloud of gas and strewed bits of Dry Ice on the floor. The gadgets are just a few of the ingenious devices that Colonel Frank J. Polich has built to help 10,000 soldiers each year understand the increasingly complex...
...offices by his old friend, Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, the Eisenhopper caught the President-elect's fancy. Talking business with serious-faced guests, Ike would casually press a hopper on to his desk, and roar with delight when, seconds later, it startled the visitors by springing ceilingward...
...ironic story with expert pantomime, fills it out with no end of comic invention. In his nightclubbing adventures with the millionaire, he never gives the audience a chance to stop laughing. He leaps gallantly to the defense of the abused lady in an apache dance team; he munches steadily ceilingward on a string of confetti that gets snarled in his spaghetti; he tries repeatedly to light his cigar but succeeds only in lighting the cigar that the millionaire is waving airily before his face. In another sequence, beautifully timed and sustained, he turns a prizefight into an uproarious ballet...
Lieut. General William Hood Simpson, immaculate, billiard-bald Ninth Army commander, was the most rumpled guest at a victory-celebration banquet in Germany: Soviet officers honored him with a triple toss ceilingward, the stouthearted Russian version of "three cheers...
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