Word: jawing
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...those who cannot forget a face, there is something in the curly hair, the forthright blue eyes and the squared-off jaw to bring back nostalgic twinges. The name is familiar too. When Barry Morris Goldwater Jr., 30, showed off his proud mom and dad to jubilant California conservatives, it was Goldwater père's evocation of the 1964 right-wing crusade that stimulated the cheering section. "In your hearts," said Barry Sr., "you know we're right...
...highlights was at the start in Hopkinton. The Bermans, a husband and wife team, were lined up, and just as the gun sounded a promiscuous runner pinched Mrs. Berman in the right buttock. Her husband responded, in the name of valor, with a right hook to the man's jaw but missed and decided to start running...
...there was no World Series for Tony that year. The pitched ball had fractured his cheekbone in three places and dislocated his jaw; it also left him completely blind for 48 hours after the accident. When he was released from the hospital eight days later, the imprint of the baseball's stitches was still visible on his brow, and the vision of his left eye was hopelessly blurred...
...away with its simple stock of Nixon, Agnew, pot, morality, and sex (especially sex) jokes because the little garage-theater they occupy in Inman Square is their own unreal world. They have their own Nixon--Ken Tigar--who can bring back our Nixon with only a malaprop, a putty jaw, and seven inflections on the word communist. They have Ted Drachman, a sloop-shouldered broomstick who can't sing and can't dance--and does both well. And finally the Proposition has Judy Kahan and Fred Grandy, two very talented people who can do anything...
Divorced. By Theodore C. Sorensen, 40, former presidential speechwriter and Kennedy Clan confidant, now a top partner (along with ex-U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg) in a prestigious Manhattan Jaw firm; Sara Elbery Sorensen, 35, petite Cambridge, Mass., schoolteacher; on the uncontested grounds of cruelty and abandonment; after nearly five years of marriage, no children; in Manhattan...