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...scrumptiously confide to her long-lost mate: "I want something I've been dreaming about for five years -a big fat double-dip chocolate soda." And in a courtroom climax, Doris demonstrates the All-America tactics that kept Eden intact: she crumples Connors with a swift jab to the midsection, slices one into the back of his neck, then whams her knee up for a jawbreaking finish. Adam is lucky to get away with his apple...
...meanwhile they have been so well trained by Valentin Filatov that they are the essential stars of the Soviet circus. They roller-skate, ride bicycles and scooters, and hang from whirling trapezes. Three of them draw a troika. Two of them fight, wearing boxing gloves. They hook and jab at each other's noses with grizzly accuracy (of course, a bear's nose is a big target). They drive motorcycles in the dark, turning the headlights on and off and stopping for traffic lights along the way. They are so intelligent that they are painful to watch...
...turn their threats into acts of war." As for the U.N., which two weeks earlier called anew for curtailment of arms to Portugal, he saw the "massive entry" of Afro-Asian states as having distorted the world organization into a threat to peace. And in a bitter jab at his NATO partner, the U.S., which has been urging Portugal to decolonize, Salazar accused Washington of competing with Russia in Africa, principally for spheres of political influence and markets...
...Massachusetts, just before a newborn baby is taken home from the hospital he is given a novel goodby: a doctor takes hold of him and jabs a lancet into his heel. From the resulting tiny puncture, the doctor squeezes three drops of blood, one each into circles printed on a piece of filter paper. With a midget bandage stuck on his heel, the baby is ready to leave. There is still one more formality: the mother gets a leaflet explaining the purpose of the jab in the heel and why she should have it repeated when the baby...
...Clifford Odets, 57, social-protest playwright during the Great Depression (Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing), later a highly paid writer of slick movie scripts . (Sweet Smell of Success); of cancer; in Los Angeles. The contrast between Odets' early proletarian dramas and his Hollywood work inspired the celebrated jab, "Odets, where is thy sting...