Word: jabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Gertrude Lawrence, one of his greatest friends and favorite acting partners during the '20s and '30s, receives a small jab from the Coward scalpel. When she vacillates about accepting a part, he directs her husband "to tell Gertie to mind her manners and that if she wants another play from me she can fish for it." Yet when she dies a year or so later, he breaks down: "With all her overactings and silliness I have never known her to do a mean or an unkind thing. I am terribly, terribly unhappy to think that I shall...
...strong work ethic has propelled Pellegrini into the NFL. His teammates have noticed it. Nitti says that Pellegrini is "one of the hardest workers I've seen in football whether it be in practice or in the weight room." Nitti, however, can't let that comment through without a jab: "Joe's only problem is that he cannot talk right. The first time I heard Joe talk he asked if he should move the ball to the farty-yahd line--the whole team fell over laughing...
...hand reaches out tentatively. Years of haranguing ("Keep your greasy fingers off the TV!") have made the screen taboo. But when the child sees that his finger causes the image to change, learns that his touch magically provokes new pictures, sequences, words and diagrams, his hand begins to jab, rub and slap the screen. Curiosity, once aroused, is satisfied by simply touching a picture of what one wants to understand. This process is re-enacted thousands of times every day at the U.S. Pavilion at Energy Expo '82 (a.k.a. the Knoxville, Tenn., World's Fair) as exuberant children...
...Silvani, who trained Rocky Graziano and actors in boxing roles from Paul Newman to Robert De Niro: "I taught Stallone how to box starting with II, but he did the choreography on his own. He'd say, O.K., Three left me.' " hooks The and I'll jab blow-by-blow you, dance then you script for jab the 9½ minutes of the final bout of III covered 14 pages. Says Stallone: "The fight choreography is very precise. Miss a step and you're in for a detached retina." In the three Rocky films the pace...
...over the weekend and running their unanswered goal string to 21 through seven periods. The Harvard hokey team his packed a big punch over the last three-and-a-half weeks, give or take a bad night in New Haven. But for each goal they've scored, for each jab at the opposition, the fans at Bright have been barely one chin-cruncher behind...