Word: contortionistic
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...flipped over from a half-lotus position, uncoiled her legs into a handstand and then snapped up into a foot grab that would give any contortionist a charley horse. "It's marvelous,'" said Actress Geraldine Chaplin, 22. Charley's daughter started with yoga when she was 13, so her limbs are used to all the pretzeling. "I don't really go beyond the physical side of it," said Geraldine in her Madrid apartment, which she has set up as home base and gymnasium for rest between films. Does the rest include sleeping on nails...
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Eartha Kitt guest-stars as a contortionist who lends her improbable talents to the Impossible Missions Force in an effort to catch a defector with nuclear secrets...
...where he spent seven days and nights huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train across the Austrian border at 50 m.p.h. But of all the tight spots escapees get themselves into, no one could match the Rumanian contortionist who folded her self up like a lawn chair and slipped across the border under an auto seat...
Patrick White is such a confident contortionist. His double-spiraled mandala is the Hindu symbol of totality embedded in a glass marble, and his vast pretension is to spin out this bauble to encompass all human life in the person of its owner-an Australian half-wit half-man living in a suburb of Sydney...
...want to tell you about the plot, but let me not briefly that the single thing that would make this production more cohesive would be an extraordinary Mathilde von Sahnd. Joan Abrahams, strapped into a hunchback's brace, must be a real contortionist to get through the evening; she plays the role quietly and competently. A performer with greater vitality might somehow have been able to suggest the importance and the ominousness of this figure. The production's asscts include a splendid set by Donald Mullin and fine lighting by Don Cate...