Word: jerking
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Marguerite shows up on the chaise again, surrounded by sophomoric sycophants, her elderly ducal paramour in the background. Enter Armand. With no gravity-defying leaps, but pedestrianly, and with a disconcerting knee jerk, he moves in on Marguerite. It is love at first sight...
...feedbacks between physical movements and processes that appear to be purely mental are as subtle as they are mysterious. At the Philadelphia Rehabilitation Center, Therapist Glenn J. Doman treats partly paralyzed patients by training them to "capture" reflex movements by a conscious effort. An obvious one is the knee jerk. The therapist provokes this by hitting the knee with a little rubber mallet. The nerve impulses involved travel only as far as the spinal cord, and the patient cannot make the movement of his own volition. But after willing himself to do it often enough, the patient contributes some movement...
...past plans, neither condition has been met. Says one Pentagon arms-control expert: "Our setup was actually designed to act in time of general var like a chicken with its head cut off. The brain could be destroyed and the nervous system severed. Then the military muscles would just jerk in uncontrolled spasms." To hold the chicken together, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has spent several hundred million dollars toward a taut new National Military Command System. It should keep a nervous G.I. in Europe from firing his atomic bazooka in the dark of night, or prevent a B-52 crew...
...fourth quarter Susan was complaining. About every two minutes she was complaining. About her feet, her hands, her bottom. I suggested that we leave. "Don't be a jerk," she replied cheerily, "I'm going to prove I'm gung-ho. We stay till the end." I watched the clock creep toward zero. Finally the last play was run off, or so I thought. There was time for one more and we sat down again. There was a puddle there...
...counterfeit comes to a toothless loan shark, a loudmouthed used-car salesman ("The all-time jerk-he belongs in the National Bureau of Standards") and a fatcat brothelkeeper whose place of business has been shut down by the police. "Private enterprise," the pimp complains indignantly, "is being stifled." The salesman, a man with $20-$20 vision, sees what might be called a gulden opportunity for creative capitalism: to compete with the Dutch government in the production of currency...