Word: gait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tryout here two years ago). Her performance in either play alone would have been an impressive achievement. But her ability to undergo such a transformation during intermission was almost uncanny. And this was much more than a change of costume, makeup and wig; she did it through her posture, gait, gesture, diction and other ways. Through extraordinary muscular control, she was able to change her whole repertory of facial contours from those of a stunning beauty to those of an uncomely nobody. Genius is not a word to be tossed about lightly; but Miss Page has unmistakable marks of genius...
...vocal control and timing she has! Her performance in either play alone would be an impressive achievement. But her ability to undergo such a transformation during intermission is almost uncanny. And this is much more than a change of costume, makeup and wig; she does it through her posture, gait, gesture, diction and other ways. Through extraordinary muscular control, she is able to change her whole repertory of facial contours from those of a stunning beauty to those of an uncomely nobody. Genius is not a word to be tossed about lightly; but Miss Page has unmistakable marks of genius...
...education fund allowed him 25 shillings (then $6.25) a week. By eating one meal a day (usually baked beans on toast), he managed to survive, and even to see a regular Saturday matinee. At school he worked hard; after hours, he tailed pedestrians all over London, mimicking their gait and gestures; and at the annual recital, the judges-Actor Gielgud among them-gave him a top prize...
Even more astonishing is the grasshopper's nervous system, which can fire his leg muscles at either a stroller's gait or a flat-out leap. Hoyle says the control lies in two simple nerve fibers that attach to the jumping muscles; one is for slow action, one for leaping. The tiny bundles of muscle fibers that are packed like the fibrils of a feather all along the thigh are never fully activated by impulses carried by the slow-action circuit, and so the grasshopper can walk where it pleases...