Word: lurch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equated with good principles and the allocation of food--in this case, muffins and cucumber sandwiches--becomes a major social issue. It is therefore not totally inappropriate that in this production Merriman, the manservant, should get the biggest laughs of the night by doing a pretty fair imitation of Lurch from The Addams Family. But it certainly doesn't speak well for the rest of the Leverett House cast, who have at their disposal among the funniest lines, scenes and characters ever sandwiched into three short acts...
CONSPIRACY runs rampant. There is grumbling in the kitchen, muttering on the back porch, gibbering in the parlor. Back-stage phone-calls jerk marionettes out of their dangling sleep and send them prancing into places of power. Zombies lurch forward. Who is Nancy Reagan anyway? And what dark beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born...
...such reasons, a lot of the country was not unhappy to watch New York City in the past year tottering like a Charlie Chaplin drunk on the brink of bankruptcy. The city is now able to lurch from payday to payday only because of revolving federal loans administered by a disdainful Republican Administration in Washington. New York has refused to redeem certain of its outstanding short-term securities on schedule. It has cut nearly 50,000 full-time employees from the city payroll in the past 18 months, reducing the total to some...
...When the lurch came aboard the American flight, Burt Herman, 44, a Chicago insurance executive traveling with his wife and three children, recalled: "We all had our seat belts on except Laurence. I grabbed him and held him down. There were screams and moans and stewardesses flying around. I exchanged looks with my wife-it was a knowing look in the eyes that this might be it. It seemed like an eternity...
Despite New Delhi's undeniable lurch toward totalitarian rule and its suspension of certain civil liberties, India remains, strictly speaking, a democracy. Mrs. Gandhi's harsh effort to suppress political opposition shocked observers outside India, but she did act within the bounds of India's rather pliable constitution. Even though some 30 opposition members are in jail or under house arrest, Parliament continues to function. Moreover, an unfettered Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments on Mrs. Gandhi's conviction in June for illegal campaign practices, as well as on a constitutional amendment abrogating the charges...