Word: heel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scaduto--"Skiddoo" to the office--all gestures, all heel clicks on the corridor tiles, shooting his pink cuffs, tugging at his earlobe, pinching his face at his reflection in the elevator mirror, tap-dancing as he talked and as his bubble gum snapped... He had teeth like piano keys, and spit flew out of his mouth when he talked...
Only the players seen through the blue gauze remind the audience of the play's links with Hamlet and with tragedy--when the down-at-the-heel band of players doubles as Denmark's familiar royal family. The troup's leader (Kevin Jennings) confronts the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with a one-upmanship that never flags. As both the king and the head Player. Jennings plays with vigor and consistency the role of crafty manipulator, impressing upon the audience Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's powerlessness to control their fate...
...them selves. Whether they will be allowed to write anything but sequels to Porky 's remains an open question. An altogether different scenario suggests itself: DISSOLVE TO AMBITIOUS YOUNG WRITER seated before TV console, his face bathed in flickering greenish light. Suddenly he smacks his forehead with the heel of his hand. AYR (excitedly): Why did I waste my childhood on words? Space Invaders, hah! Pac-Man, hah! At last I have programmed the game that will make millions and millions and . . . - By Paul Gray
...taken the House two years of acrimonious debate to bring the contentious question to heel. But when legislation proposed by an unusual blue-ribbon panel to save the financially troubled Social Security system finally reached the floor last week, the vast package barreled through to bipartisan approval, 282 to 148. Passage of the bill, said Minority Leader Robert H. Michel, was "born of necessity and ripened of bipartisan deliberation...
...Nancy Boutilier, whose play Delancy Smith felt kept us in the game" controlled the ball against the Big Red press. Senior Kate Martin and Co-Captain Frenesa Hall helped out. Martin and Boutilier have been seeing more playing time since Co-Captain Pat Horne pulled up lame with a heel bone hairline fracture...