Word: crutches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crutch and cast are notorious aftermaths of the ski weekend. Not only pain and inconvenience result for the individual concerned, but also he often is unable to participate in his favorite winter sport until next season...
...crutch and cast are notorious aftermaths of the ski weekend. Not only pain and inconvenience result for the individual concerned, but also he often is unable to participate in his favorite winter sport until next season...
...challenge the liberal consensus: Hubert Humphrey is different. Unlike Johnson today and Kennedy in 1960, Humphrey is not simply the lesser of two evils. He is a positive good, the best candidate since Adlai--no, better than Adlai, because he can talk to folks without the crutch of irony. He fights harder than Wayne Morse, yet smiles. He dreams bigger than Chester Bowles, yet does his homework. He is a male Eleanor Roosevelt...
...mayor's daughter by performing a squalid striptease. Later, posing as a mentally defective prince, he gibbers like a traumatized gorilla and has to be spoon-fed. Then, pretending to be a crippled, self-pitying veteran, he exploits the comic possibilities of a wheelchair. Funny as a crutch. A few more stiffs like this one and Brando fan clubs will be flying their torn and faded T shirts at half-mast...
...repercussions is the choice of "Cleopatra" both for Worst Picture of the Year and Worst Film of the Century. (The latter award, given for the century 1863-1963 was last presented in 1958.) Usually reliable sources said last night that stars Elizabeth Taylor (winner of The Timothy Cratchit Memorial Crutch) and Richard Burton (recipient of the Wilde Oscar) have already left Boston in a huff...