Word: limbering
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...dancers from abroad were a pleasure to watch. But it would be hard to deny that American choreographers and the limber American bodies they employ, better reflect the concerns of the 20th century. Elsewhere, dance is all too often a carefully presented museum; in the U.S., it is one of the swinging arts...
...beginning, the exercise of each part of the body--willing toes, clenching fists, stretching necks--is encouraged. When the patients feel limber and responsive to music, she explains perhaps that Argentine girls are taught to stand straight and tall, with shoulders back and heads high. She then asks if the patients would like to pretend their are Argentines...
Fonda makes frantic efforts to ring in a company lawyer, a doctor and a hyperthyroid magazine editor (Sandy Baron) to thwart the ultranatural-childbirth plot. This keeps the stage busy, but what keeps the play moving is undrying freshets of laughter, the limber comic pacing of Director Gene Saks, and the abrasive tension of the generational tug-of-war. The son-in-law's nose is keener than his intelligence. He scents corruption in every institution, but he demands a kind of impossible social purity, something akin to repealing the Industrial Revolution. The father has permitted an urgent sense...
...probably covered in many places with chunks of rubble and unstable dusty slopes. One U.S. astronaut recently put on a moon-exploration space suit and stumbled across a lava bed in Oregon. He found the knees too stiff for such work, and the suit is being made more limber...
...naturally to a spectacle-loving public that few people ever think to question its necessity or its form. Yet there it was, with all the oomph and oompah, the crashing brass, the flights of unwitting comic relief, the displays of acrobatics, the precision marching, the dimpled knees and limber legs, the earnest faces of the young people who had come from all over the nation...