Word: lurchings
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...Morticia, with a chilling verve that should make any dead-blooded man want to share a bier with her. Her husband Gomez (John Astin) and Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan) are quite sufficiently insane, but one could research the annals of television and not discover the likes of her butler Lurch, who is played by Ted Cassidy, 6 ft. 9 in., 250 Ibs., with a massive, embalmed face and a deft touch on the parlor spinet...
...same here. Small children play in the front yard near the rusting skeleton of an auto chassis. Old people sit on the sagging porch. The others are chopping cotton in the nearby fields, wearing broad hats to keep off the sun. Long rows of cotton and corn lurch unsteadily in the waves of heat. When a car passes the dust seems to boil up off the dirt road and settles everywhere...
...same here. Small children play in the front yard near the rusting skeleton of an auto chassis. Old people sit on the sagging porch. The others are chopping cotton in the nearby fields, wearing broad hats to keep off the sun. Long rows of cotton and corn lurch unsteadily in the waves of heat. When a car passes the dust seems to boil up off the dirt road and settles everywhere...
...grows impatient with the academic routine. "I didn't come here to be a scholar," he says. Assigned to a large parish in Syracuse, where he calls himself "a man with something to sell," Peale clashes with board members about an advertising campaign ("Lost your gal? In a lurch? Don't panic, pal. Go to church."). Ere long, thanks to "God's most potent chemistry," he meets and marries a spirited co-ed named Ruth (Diana Hyland). He is then summoned to Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, where he wins a huge following and prepares his first...
Meanwhile, the leftward lurch continues. The island's new chief source of oil is the Soviet bloc, following the seizure of three U.S. and British firms (Esso, Caltex, Burmah-Shell) and the creation of a government oil combine. The Western companies have not been paid a cent for their properties worth $29.5 million; as a result, the U.S. has canceled further economic aid to Ceylon after doling out a yearly average of $7.5 million over the last decade...