Word: jerk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narrative. "I am very, very strict structurally," he says. "You can break any rule you want, but you have to have a clue about what the rules are." Morris makes up full-bodied dances that celebrate the pure joy of movement, usually spiked with an irreverent wit. "The knee-jerk response is to assume that a lot of what I do is parody or sarcastic when it actually isn't," he observes. "I'm interested in the story and really good dancing. But you know, you can't force people to get that...
Although tutors should not tolerate bigotry, neither should they respond to it with a knee-jerk threat. Ignatiev's letter makes him seem more like a petulant child than a responsible adult, more like a person in need of guidance than able to offer it to others...
...current Reebok crosstrainer commercial, the kind of thing the play seems to mock. The 27 scene changes are clocked and set into motion with finesse, a credit to the lighting and set crew. However, these changes also pose a problem. Too abrupt and vague at times, they tend to jerk the audience, confusing an otherwise entertaining plot and sleek production...
...policy banning foreign investment reflects and may even feed the kind of knee-jerk protectionist attitude increasingly prevalent in recessionary America...
...Students] want to spend their time a little bit better than just going out and trying cry-baby knee-jerk tactics," he says...