Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saddler's first sequence has Louise (Dancer Patricia Birsh) weaving about George (Thomas Hasson) in a brash, hip-flicking dance of courtship culminating in a clinch and Louise's exit in Georges arms. "Nobody saw us," he says as he returns breathless to the stage. In the second incident, Alice (Maria Karnilova) rips off her nightgown, thrusts and twists about the stage in a wonderful pantomime of alternate abandon and frustration, finally offers herself to a stranger. "I don't care who he is as long as he is alone," she says, but she is rejected...
Operation Mad Ball (Columbia), according to some wacky prerelease publicity, is based on the bestselling book, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. Anybody who enjoyed the book had better skip the picture-as usual, Hollywood has changed the story. The new one does not end with "zymurgy." but with "clinch."' And besides, it sounds less like Webster than the Army Manual, read upside down and backwards at the top of a top kick's lungs. In short, OMB is routine regimental farce, but fast and snafurious...
Unbeaten Dunster, the offensive power of the House football league, won its sixth straight game yesterday as it downed Lowell 26 to 7. The Funsters now need only one more victory to clinch the House football title...
...underprivileged children. Even those who adore youngsters blindly may wince at the subsequent digression into a joyous interracial sea of gap-toothed, freckled faces, cutely squalling songs off-key-the sort of kiddies' night program that could break up a P.T.A. meeting. When Cary and Deborah at last clinch again on Christmas Day, it is a miracle that the juvenile choir does not burst in shrieking Away in a Manger...
...finally leads her Egyptian officer back to London at the end of her typewriter ribbon. Yehia is happy with his revolution (it may be a dictatorship, he concedes, but it is a "dictatorship by Egyptians") and becomes military attaché in London, where he and Elaine melt into a clinch as the organ of a nonconformist chapel thunders through the wall of her flat...