Word: jerks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Riley, 32, whose visual torments are on view in London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. Precise black and white herringbone lines constantly wriggle, peak and valley, in an embodiment of vertigo. Visitors have become nauseated and dizzied by Riley's intense, chattering images that force their eyes to jerk to and fro. Not simply geometric tricks, they are larger than sheer optical delusions: orderliness clashes with chaos in the precarious proximity of black and white bands. They also teach that man cannot always master his senses...
Self-styled as an independent, White shifts in print from party to party in pursuit of the middle ground. He likes to dismiss Democrats who respond reflexively to liberal shibboleths as "knee-jerk liberals...
Under the Yum-Yum Tree. "Let's live together but not sleep together," says an all-American jane (Carol Lynley) to an all-American jerk (Dean Jones). "That way we can test our character compatibility." Ugh? But don't go away. The plot doesn't really matter in this Hollywood version of the corny, porny comedy that ran for a season (1960-61) on Broadway. The only thing that matters is Jack Lemmon...
...villain pursues her. He listens at her front door with a stethoscope. He even sneaks into her flat with a watering can and sprinkles her jonquils. Jerk: "I hate to tell you, but those flowers are artificial." Jack: "That's all right. There's no water...
Although the Sherif had asserted that Ware, in the hasty trip to Camilla hospital, had been slumped over, Minter had him sitting up straight. When asked to demonstrate how Ware, from an erect position, could bite the Sheriff, Minter leaned stiffly to the left and with a quick jerk of his head took a chomp...