Word: crutch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet Union, now bubbling up through many unofficial groups and opposing factions within the party itself, before it reaches the flood levels prevailing in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, the Communist Party will have to demonstrate that it deserves the support of the people without relying on the crutch of Article...
...week there was practically nothing but comment. Naomi complained in a newspaper interview that her husband had developed a "fantasy thing" for his 37-year-old speechwriter, Margaret Pope. Then David's 80-year-old mother Phoebe piped up, pronouncing herself "so angry I could behead him with my crutch." For his part, Lange declared that he planned to live with Pope and joked of his mum's dismay that she was "writing a soap opera called Lays of Our Dave...
...would be a mistake to see Woody Allen's obsession with the clarinet as an eccentric hobby or psychological crutch. In ways both direct and indirect, concrete and spiritual, his musician's ear and instincts have helped make him the remarkable artist he is in other domains. "Jazz is a perfect music for him," says Eric Lax, who is writing a book on Allen. "It hates authority. It is a quirky, individual style requiring great discipline to play right. It is all the things that fit his comic character." So play it again, Woody...
...Neil has been my best friend," Gielen says. "He's someone I can always depend on as a crutch, or as a partner...
...everything in its midst; a riot, a scream. Sometimes (rarely) Nixon laughs aloud. The gunshot laugh, the "Ha!" It is what Beckett designated as the risus purus: the laugh laughing at itself in the abysmal farce, in which every part is deadly ridiculous, every line as funny as a crutch...