Word: clasped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually knows how cliched his situations are, and he often satirizes them in clever ways. In a typical over-melodramatic sequence, for example, handsome Bob Fine (O'Neal) meets and falls in love with the voluptuous and married Lira (Mariangela Melato). They gaze intensly at each other, finally they clasp hands. Slowly their lips meet, they kiss deeply. They separate and gaze into each other's eyes. Lira says, "I fuck around...
...spread, lats being back muscles--from a wide V from your waist to your shoulders. There's the double biceps, that classic pose that every six-year-old hits during the stage where he's doing push-ups and fooling with dumbbells. And there's the "Most Muscular pose. Clasp your hands a little below your naval, force your chest and neck out, strain until every vein looks like a pencil and your face looks like it's not going to last very...much...longer, and that's the most muscular...
...work or play, everybody emits wordless signals of infinite variety. Overt, like a warm smile. Spontaneous, like a raised eyebrow. Involuntary, like leaning away from a salesperson to resist a deal. Says Julius Fast in Body Language: "We rub our noses for puzzlement. We clasp our arms to isolate ourselves or to protect ourselves. We shrug our shoulders for indifference." Baseball pitchers often dust back a batter with a close ball that is not intended to hit but only to signal a warning claim of dominance. The twitchings of young children too long in adult company are merely involuntary signals...
Because higher education has become so centra' to our culture, government is more and more inclined to intervene in order to make certain that our colleges and universities serve the public well. Yet we know that government can easily clasp education in a deadly embrace that stifles its creativity and vigor... --Public Interest, Winter...
Erhart has a more intoxicating idea, like eloping with a pert divorcee (Patricia Cray Lloyd). The desolate John Gabriel wanders out into the snow to die, and the sisters clasp hands of reconciliation over his body. Marshall, Murphy and Worth do the best that able professionals can with their roles but this production rarely gives them much scope...