Word: corded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands to pound home his points, toying with his glasses and abandoning his previous deadpan, Sunday-sermon visage for a range of grins and grimaces, smiles and scowls worthy of a Method actor. All the while, an Army Signal Corpsman crouched unseen behind the lectern, reeling out microphone cord when Johnson wandered to the edge of the stage and making sure that he did not trip himself...
Chuck Berry slips on stage midst the buttered bedlam, carrying a greasy red guitar. Someone is aware enough to start a smattering of applause. Berry does not acknowledge this, but squats with his back to the audience and tugs at an amplifier cord. Quickly he tunes his guitar, places it back in its case on the edge of the stage, and again disappears...
...that tries to clarify why men fail to help each other in times of stress and danger. Unquestionably, the passengers could have saved themselves; any one of them might have got off to summon help before the thugs thought to block the doors, or at least yanked the emergency cord. Nobody does, because the paralysis of fear has linked them all. The eventual resolution is placed in the hands of the one person least caught up in the life of the jungle of cities-the crippled Oklahoma soldier (Beau Bridges). The Incident thus plausibly proposes the desiccating, depersonalizing pressure...
...good man, came running to the almighty camera. The interviewer was Sandy Koufax, a patent phony who had sold out for money. Hair slicked down--was it Vitalis or Brylcream--Koufax, also in a blue blazer, underwear by Jantzen, was out of a thousand ads. He slipped a microphone cord around William's neck and made the honest man do tricks for five minutes...
Benny Boudreaux, 40, from the bayou country of Louisiana, lost the use of his legs from an injury to his spinal cord in an auto crash while he was in the Air Force. Like most of the 1 00,000 U.S. paraplegics (both legs disabled) and quadriplegics (both arms and legs disabled), Boudreaux was constantly prey to excruciating decubitus ulcers, better known as bedsores. In the Veterans Administration Hospital in Memphis, he was condemned to lie in bed, face down, so no bony prominences could cause pressure and ulcers...