Word: limpness
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...recent surgical staff meeting in Los Angeles, other former patients of Charnley and his disciples demonstrated their agility. A woman of 65, who had replacements for both hips, walked with neither pain nor limp. A former R.A.F. pilot, 46, handicapped for more than 20 years by a World War II injury, did a little "gogo" dance...
...ship that has suffered an accident at sea, it is sometimes said, in the vocabulary of marine gallantry, that she came into port "under her own power." In any given season, a surprising number of crippled shows, often musicals, limp into Manhattan listing badly. For them, Broadway is not a safe haven, but a bone yard...
Alyosha lend us your sacred know how now. Teach us to make your children forget what has made them rigid. Teach us to make them first limp and fearless, then to raise them again with the new backbone and fiber and flexibility. Let us teach them to die and know death is not the worse there...
...been an implied anguish, a faint twinge of bitterness behind the witty satire. King's most recent work, titled Farmers and currently displayed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, is not comic at all, but starkly tragic. It consists of a dozen or so limp, lifeless figures fashioned from corrugated cardboard. King ran up a pair of black cotton pajamas for each, made conical hats from brown wrapping paper, and tossed them all in a casual heap on the floor. "I wanted to make a point about Viet Nam," he says, "and this was something...
...makeup and a gown and a hairdo she does herself. There is none of the oppressive overproduction that is now the vogue in cabaret acts-the choreography down to the last twitch, the scripting of every gasp, the obtrusive gags. Any quips are her own and perhaps a little limp, but honest. During her recent stint at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, she delivered herself of some extemporaneous antiwar sentiments, then added: "Mr. Agnew, I'm sorry." What really distinguishes Petula's performances is that voice-now throaty, now driving, and seemingly twice too powerful for a delicate...