Word: flutter
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...Tiny Tim, the Lebanese songbird who built stardom on a flutter and a falsetto, will be surprised to learn that he gets knots in his hair because he never combs or brushes it. It is perhaps more surprising that swarthy Tiny is heavily into beauty products. "He'd buy crates and crates of skin cream, and he would spend hours using it," writes his recently alienated wife "Miss Vicki," 20, in the Ladies' Home Journal. Other peeps into the private life of Herbert B. Khaury: "He has a fetish about food...
...dead or missing after the collapse. Said Captain Richard Cassidy, one of five advisers who survived the disaster: "Tan Canh fell because ARVN never got off its ass and fought." The word out of Saigon was that the regional commander, flamboyant Lieut. General Ngo Dzu, had suffered a "heart flutter," which seemed to indicate that he would be relieved shortly...
...primitive Britain. Hence the delicate Amazon, who might have stepped out of a court masque. Her tribal body painting is transmuted into an exquisite damask of skin tattoos; every detail of Le Moyne's image, from the green, parklike landscape and the rippling blonde hair to the jaunty flutter of tassel and petal, adds to the sense of a new-minted Arcadia. It is, of course, completely artificial...
...from the countless squares of countless villages came the cry. "Victory to Bengal! Victory to Bengal!" They danced on the roofs of buses and marched down city streets singing their anthem Golden Bengal. They brought the green, red and gold banner of Bengal out of secret hiding places to flutter freely from buildings, while huge pictures of their imprisoned leader, Sheik Mujibur Rahman, sprang up overnight on trucks, houses and signposts. As Indian troops advanced first to Jessore, then to Comilla, then to the outskirts of the capital of Dacca, small children clambered over their trucks and Bengalis everywhere cheered...
...hand flutter like birds. I don't want to give you the picture if you don't like it. You will either tear it up or bury it in a drawer. You think it makes you look bad, Awkward...