Word: gait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jonson), which would climax a few years later in the publication of Burton's huge Anatomy of Melancholy. Jaques is the counterpart of Malvolio in Twelfth Night, which Philip Kerr played so admirably here two years ago. Kerr is now imbuing Jaques with the same wide-stanced, pigeon-toed gait he used for Malvolio. To this he has added a wonderful pasty face and a hilarious mannerism of gargling his r's in words like 'warble' and 'warp.' Since Jaques not only is a malcontent but also enjoys parading his melancholia, he carries a little notebook and pencil in which...
...Tanzanian's rigorous schedule. It dispelled the intimidating notion popular among Bayi's competitors-that he had tapped some magical source of stamina in the upcountry of Africa that the world would never share. Unlike Bayi-who seems to glide effortlessly over the track with a feathery gait, his delicate, slender features contorted only by an occasional smile-Walker runs a noisy, grimacing race, punctuated by grunts and the thud of heavy footfalls. Part of the drama of a Bayi-Walker race, whenever and wherever it takes place, will be the sight of a front-running Mercury with...
Tenor Alan Keyes, accompanied on the piano by Gait Sirguey, will present pieces by Schubert, Gounod and Vaughan-Williams. Winthrop...
Peter isn't the only one who feels trapped in his job, but he's the only one to force a way out. The Jewish pastry maker (Ken Levy) strolling on the rims of his feet with the tipsy gait of a fat man, spits out a profane nightmare in response to Peter's plea for a dream: "When the world is full of kitchens, you get pigs." But the pastry cook meekly figures someone has to roll out dough, assemble cars and take coal from the ground, anyway. The Kitchen's Italian cook will be all right as long...
...many respects, it was a vastly changed Nixon who toured China. His shoulders were more stooped, his gait slower. He favors the left leg, on which he was operated for phlebitis in 1974, and wears an anti-embolism stocking on it to keep fluids from accumulating. Nixon was accompanied by his own U.S. Navy medical corpsman who took his blood pressure at least twice a day, and a top doctor from Peking Hospital was also assigned to him duringthe visit...