Word: fidget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...word "colored" instead of "Black" and his attempt to shock Peter with a brief and sketchy account of the single homosexual experience of his youth. If Peter stood for the values of the play's original audiences, he does no longer, and the things Jerry says that make him fidget in his seat do not necessarily make us do the same...
...Disney canon. Otherwise it's business and pleasure as usual. Keen-witted Basil of Baker Street and his colleague Dr. Dawson search for a girl mouse's father, a toymaker abducted by the evil rodent genius Professor Ratigan. The movie's scene-stealer is a peg-legged bat named Fidget, who gets laughs when someone stomps on his foot ("My only foot!"). Later Basil and Dawson are trussed up on Ratigan's killer mousetrap, a Rube Spielberg device that jump-starts the filmmakers' ingenuity and accelerates the plot toward its nifty climax. Nothing as weighty as the art of animation...
...composure last week as he became the first heir to the British throne to attend kindergarten. Arriving with the obviously anxious Prince Charles and Princess Diana, William politely shook hands with his teacher and turned obediently to wave a hand at the horde of journalists. Then, without fuss or fidget, the royal pupil disappeared into the basement classroom, where he began an introductory curriculum of paper and clay modeling, painting and music. Less than two hours later, William, as his classmates know him, emerged carrying his thermos and a new finger puppet. Remarked his pleased mother: "I think...
Every day at dusk, a scruffy knot of rebels gather before the gutted cathedral in the Salvadoran town of Jucuarán. All carry automatic weapons, but little else about them bespeaks military discipline. They fidget and giggle like schoolboys, snapping to attention only at the sight of their bearded commander. "For the people of this town, you are the revolution," he warned them one evening last week. "Be polite. Ask permission before entering a house." But as soon as the leader departed for his camp deep in the nearby hills, the youths slung their M-16s over their shoulders...