Word: limbering
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...virtuosity is hidden." The show's scale and intimacy hark back to the 19th century tradition of such masters as Robert Houdin (from whom Houdini extracted his own stage name), and, along with card manipulations and effortless demonstrations of false dealing and three-card monte technique, Jay delivers a limber-fingered course in magic history and gambling ploys...
...support Democrats. Bush retained that support in 1988 by a narrow margin and did even better among slightly older baby boomers. This year Clinton ran ahead of Bush in every age group, but his largest margin was among those between 18 and 24. One reason was Clinton's limber courtship of the young in show-biz terms -- playing his sax on the Arsenio Hall show, for instance, and featuring rock music at his rallies. But recent high school and college graduates facing a bleak employment market had more substantive reasons for abandoning the G.O.P...
With his owlish gaze, lithe step and limber tongue, Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren looks and acts like the Jesuit-trained postgraduate of M.I.T. that he is. For most of his 45 years, he has labored in profitable obscurity. During nearly 11 years of rule by the Sandinista National Liberation Front, Lacayo, the son of one wealthy family who married into another, tended to business, leaving Nicaragua's treacherous politics to others...
Make sure you've stretched out before you try to ski. You'll be surprised how many muscles you body has, and how many of them will hurt the day after you ski. Concentrate especially on stretches for the calves, ham string, and groin area. A limber body is much less susceptible to injury...
LARGELY NEW YORK. Lanky, limber Bill Irwin, silent in this 70-minute Broadway sketchbook, owes much to Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau, but gags about man's obsessive relations with machines still work in a Walkman world...