Word: crystallic
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Father Eddy spent his childhood serving up milkshakes in his father's pharmacy; his son Peter was brought up in a dazzling world of millionaires and Chippendale chairs. Even the names of his schools had that ring of good crystal-Eaglebrook, Hotchkiss and Yale...
...Clear Day she plays a dual role as Daisy Gamble, a low-brow chick who gains highborn chic when she is hypnotized. With a nod of her head, she goes from side-of-da-mouth to elegant eighteenth century English, from bubble-gum popping to a low purr when crystal wouldn't melt in her mouth. The new voice seems less to be coming from her than through her-a ventriloquistic trick-but it provokes a growl of lusty approval from the audience. And that in itself is justification aplenty for Alan Jay Lerner to have paid Barbara...
...Clay's other opponents have been subjected to frothing mouthfuls of abuse. Patterson got the same treatment at first: "He couldn't out-punch my ninety-year-old grandmother," Clay used to say about the former champion. "He is the only fighter I know with a one-hundred carat crystal...
...successful. He's like those gangsters he used to play. What he likes in his gut the public likes in their guts-or else. He has the primitive instincts of a clever ape. On television, that's worth more than a crystal ball...
...crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...