Word: lurchings
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Some questions seem rather conclusively settled. The Zapruder film, for example, shows Kennedy lurching backward after the shot to his head, implying that the bullet came from somewhere in front of the car. But the medical evidence leaves no doubt that both shots came from the rear; as one expert explains, the backward lurch could have been caused by an involuntary neuromuscular reaction to the devastating bullet...
...this land was brought forth by men who God sent down and inspired to do it." During a 1961 debate he went so far as to claim that President Eisenhower supported socialist policies regarding education. Yet his primary victory seemed to be less an indication of a rightward lurch in Arizona than of resentment against the "Phoenix 40" and other business and political leaders. His nomination sent a message to the "downtown establishment," said Mecham. "No longer can we allow them to go close the door and make the decisions on what's going to happen to the rest...
...unacceptable shift," snapped Socialist Chancellor Franz Vranitzky. He was referring to an abrupt rightward lurch by his conservative coalition partner, Austria's Freedom Party, which had just elected Jorg Haider, 36, as party chairman. With that, Vranitzky called for snap elections in November...
...killer with "no compassion, no compromise." At times he can be wildly ironic, as when he meticulously preserves in his bathroom the teeth, fingernails and ear that have molted, and then jokes that "the medicine cabinet's now the Brundle Museum of Natural History." At other moments he can lurch from irony to insanity to Kafkaesque insight. "I'm an insect who dreamed he was a man, and loved it." "Help me," he tells Veronica. "Help me be human." Alas, she has her own problem. She is pregnant -- but with Seth's child or Brundlefly...
Well, the Russian white knight, needless to say, comes equipped with someone for Elaine's friend, the Lurch-like Igor. After a slight misunderstanding regarding the difference between blowing them off and excusing themselves to go to the bathroom, the women nab both of the sailors for the night. And what a night it is--Theresa and Igor are energetically bouncing up and down on the bed while next door Elaine and Peter are holding hands, looking out at the stars, and thinking that they might be fallling in love with each other...