Word: jawing
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...strides through Metropolis with a heavy, sexy gait, as if John Wayne had just discovered his libido. A three-day beard prickles the lantern jaw. His hair has lost that Wildroot sheen, and the brilliant red cape has turned a dirty maroon. Even the cape's bold insignia looks tarnished: the S coils like a sinister serpent. From every corner of the Big Apricot, citizens avert their eyes, hardly daring to whisper: Can this be ... Superman...
...Torrey, along with Coach Al Arbour for the past ten years, to be rugged enough to stand up to the Philadelphia Flyers, scourges of the Patrick Division. But the Islanders throw their weight around reluctantly. Clark Gillies, a 6-ft. 3-in., 214-lb. Gary Cooper type from Moose Jaw, Sask., throttles troublemakers almost regretfully. Mike Bossy, New York's most prolific scorer, expressly refuses to fight. They put people in mind of the Montreal Canadiens, the only other team that has ever won four straight Stanley Cups (1976-79). In fact, the Canadiens also won five...
...making the audience dislike him, shouts, screams, and schemes from the moment of his first appearance. White masks painted on the faces of the actors heighten their stylization, making them cartoon versions of themselves. These masks emphasize the actors' exaggerated facial expressions, making the comedy more visual. Omelet's jaw, dropped in surprise, hangs at chest level for two minutes or more; the nervous suitor and his bride-to-be squirm, choke and bite their nails as they try to make innoucuous conversation...
...nation's labor force for the transition to high-technology industries. After visiting the Eire Pub "men's bar" in the Dorchester section of Boston (he took just one sip of his Ballantine ale) and discussing business problems with a group of executives, he uncorked a jaw-dropper, suggesting that abolishing corporate taxes might be a good idea. "When are we going to have the courage to point out that in our tax structure the corporate tax is very hard to justify?" he asked. Others have suggested before that taxing both business profits and the dividends paid...
...their lives necessarily riveting. None of them is intended primarily as a tragic figure, despite personal hardships, and Naylor occasionally errs too far towards the nonchalant in making that point clear: "She had almost learned to cope with his peculiar ways. A pot of burnt rice meant a fractured jaw or a wet bathroom floor a loose tooth." Each woman's story opens not with birth, or adolescence, or marriage, but with the moment that tragedy appears in her life, foreshadowing even greater misery...