Word: elasticize
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Narrative Gift. On his show, as well as on his records, Flip Wilson spins out these impersonations in anecdotes, not one-liners. His gift is for dialect and narrative, not gags. The laugh track of a Bob Hope or a Milton Berle is a crescendo to climactic punch lines. Flip...
The bloody war in Viet Nam actively festers in the imagination of one of the more promising young U.S. playwrights, David Rabe. In his drama of last season, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, the taste of blood and the apprehension of imminent death gave the evening an elastic tension...
Kenneth Piper last April became the first man to fly from Twickenham Bridge into the Thames. It was not much of a flight, actually-about 40 feet, straight down-but the fact that Piper was borne by homemade wings gave it an added dimension of pathos. Walter Cornelius (the "Birdman...
Fascinating Characters. Heading the excellent cast is Keith Michell as Henry, the man with a hard heart and an elastic conscience. We see him first as a slim, fey, slightly bland youth of 18, living a sheltered life surrounded by tutors and priests. He progresses through the series like a...
Medical experts conceded that weightlessness could have played a part in the deaths, but they had doubts that the hearts of three men with different physiologies would fail simultaneously. They also pointed out that at no time during the long mission did the cosmonauts complain of any harsh reaction to...