Word: gait
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's 2 million to 3 million schizophrenics respond well enough to the standard treatment with Thorazine (chlorpromazine) and similar drugs to avoid further hospital visits. Most who do respond remain somewhat disabled, and about 80% are stuck with serious and humiliating side effects, including dulled emotions, a clumsy gait known as the "Thorazine shuffle," a compulsive foot-tapping restlessness and an irreversible syndrome called tardive dyskinesia, characterized by twitching and jerky movements of the facial muscles and tongue...
...worst, Pacino has let himself degenerate into the mere sum of his quirks -- short stature emphasized by a rolling, shambling gait, gargling intonations, facial tics, a veritable thesaurus of hand gestures. At his best, as he is in a daring pair of roles now on Broadway, he recaptures with easy artlessness the range and power of his debut. One night he is a lisping, languorous biblical potentate, concealing deadly willfullness within a Bette Davis-like camp distraction, as King Herod in Oscar Wilde's Salome. The next night, in the new Chinese Coffee by the relatively unknown Ira Lewis, Pacino...
Hughes stands out as the lascivious, obnoxious and Machiavellian Valmont. Everything from his swaggering gait to his libidinal outbursts a delineates a distinctive Valmont. His character suffers from frustrated vanity, and he devises his own fall with unwitting irony. He disgusts the audience with his lecherousness and charms them with his seductive demeanor...
There is much in this book that is profound, but little that trumpets itself as such. There is little precarious and showy piling of image on image, few abstruse allusions and fancy metaphysical dance-steps. Rather, there is every-where the easy, sure-footed gait of a writer at home in his native tongue and native place...
East Germany's Defense Minister announced that his country's soldiers will no longer march the goose step -- the swinging, stiff-legged gait that originated in Prussia and later became a feared and hated trademark of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich...