Word: clench
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit, Carter earned good reviews for his newly assertive style of delivery. He was helped here by coaching from Image-Maker Gerald Rafshoon. Before Carter's Sunday night speech, he went to Rafshoon's quarters in the Executive Office Building to learn how to move his arms and clench his fist to show forcefulness. After the lesson, Carter ran through the speech and watched a videotaped replay, then practiced again, until he and Rafshoon were satisfied...
...gimmick. All you need is a gimmick to give the Harvard-Yale game its annual place of ambiguity in college football lore. Not an issue (though a bunch of clench-fisted students shouting "Harvard Out Now" when the Crimson is fourth and ten at its own one yard line might be interesting). Not even a diversion (A. Bartlett Giamatti stricken with salmonella poisoning in the third quarter? Nah, too messy...
...assassination of a president, presumably Kennedy, and of Martin Luther King, Jr., while the American public, embodied in a hysterical chorus, shirks all blame for the killings. Society is rather tritely compared to a flock of lemmings, and four women bewail the discontinuity of modern life as they clench and splay their fingers, droning: "Open. Close. Open. Close. No effort... Makes these two movements...
...When you walk into a room full of men," White says, "you can see them physically tense up. You can see it in their hands, the way they clench when you come in. It's frightening. I suppose affirmative action has had some effect, but I haven't seen evidence of a change here. People can circumvent laws, and you don't see a change in attitudes...
...else's speech by interjecting "Yes, yes!" or by finishing his sentences for him? Do you try to do more than one thing at a time-work out a problem while someone is talking to you, or dictate to a secretary while driving a car? Do you often clench your fist or pound the desk for emphasis? Do you feel guilty if you are idle for a few days or even hours...