Word: goosestep
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...suspicions that Jung, who defected to South Korea from the North in 1994, is not looking to delight audiences with the kind of toe-tapping jollity dished up on Broadway: while a patriotic North Korean song blared in the background, a dozen actors playing prison guards marched menacingly in goosestep around three Yodok inmates caught trying to escape. Jung, who says his father was publicly executed in one of Kim's camps, intends to play things straight. The story, which Jung himself wrote, is nothing if not realistic, which is to say it's about as grim...
...Richard Howells) coaches Ui in speech and movement by running him through Marc Antony's speech in Julius Caesar. At first Raphael's imitation of Howells' already exaggerated enunciation and movement makes him look like John Cleese's Minister of Silly Walks. But the walk soon becomes an obscene goosestep, the speech a guttural shout. Raphael must have watched films of old Hitler speeches, because he has der Fuhrer's mannerisms, voice and gestures down pat. He is truly frightening to watch...
...actors goosestep through their roles so rigidly they give the impression that some dire punishment awaits them if they show emotion. Nadja Tiller manages to enchant at least ten men without showing any more warmth than a champion poker player...
...summer long, in parks and playgrounds of the U.S. zone, some 10,000 German boys have been forgetting how to goosestep while they mastered a new sport-baseball. Egged on by G.I.s, opposing nines have knocked homers and stolen bases while frenzied fans bawled out the umpire with shouts of: "Hornochs! Faulenzer! Dieb!" (Blockhead! Bum! Crook...
...left of center, where the heart belongs, the leader of the Radical Socialists. In statesmanship he fell heir to Briand's mantle; he preached the gospel of a United States of Europe, but his wise, rotund and sentimental words were lost in the smashing tread of the Brownshirt goosestep...