Word: crutch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plaintive bleat. Only in the orchestral interludes, affecting, purely musical ruminations that speak louder and far more honestly than the clamor onstage, do we hear the real voice of Leonard Bernstein, struggling to be heard amid all the earnest chatter. Perhaps it is time for Bernstein to forgo the crutch of a text, which has served him so poorly of late, and listen to what his own voice is telling...
...parents were lawyers," she recalls. "He assumed that I came from a very rich back ground. At that moment, I knew that I could be much more open about my life and that I could talk about my background I wasn't necessarily using it as a crutch...
...dialogue sings with a tone-poem eloquence far from the drab disjunctive patterns of everyday talk. He is an electrifying scenewright simply because his people are the sort who are born to make scenes, explosively and woundingly. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Daddy jerks the crutch out from under his son Brick's arm and sends him sprawling in agony; a few minutes later Brick kicks the life out of Big Daddy by telling the old man that he is dying of cancer. Williams' vibrantly durable characters stalk the mind. Try to forget Maggie...
...through the B.C. bench into the bleachers. After getting up with the trainers' assistance. Scannell clutched her ribs. She fractured a couple of ribs but plans to be playing in a week. Horne, less fortunately, has been given an eight week recovery date. Teammate Val Jordan has had a crutch since before the recess...
...become one with characters of my own creation, to resemble them? Who is there to stop me from having their noses, their hair, their frock coats as I describe them?' he said, exchanging a biretta for a meerschaum, the meerschaum for a duster, and the duster for a crutch. 'What does it matter to anyone if I lubricate my imagination with a few bits of cloth...