Word: midgetism
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...musical Moon over Harlem--as well as pictures in Yiddish and Ukrainian--all in the same year (1939). These guys were tireless: from 1935 to 1945, hack-of-hacks Sam Newfield directed an impossible 150 quickie movies, including the grindhouse curio The Terror of Tiny Town, the only all-midget singing western...
...though, that has allowed Shewchuk to play at the top levels of hockey. Because of her knack for find the back of the net, Shewchuk routinely found her way onto previously all-male teams. She was the first women hockey player to be signed as a reserve for a Midget AAA Canadian team. This Midget league is a feeder for many Junior Canadian team and, to varying degree, the NHL. Learning to play with and against physically larger and faster males has afforded Shewchuk an advantage over most other girls, who played in all-female leagues...
...story itself is not so complex. In a town by the sea, children are being abducted. The culprits are the diabolical Krank (a menacing Daniel Emilfork), his midget wife, his six identical brothers (all played by Dominique Pinon, the heroic clown of Delicatessen), and a pulsating brain named Irvin that floats in an aquarium. All are genetic experiments, and Krank has been aging prematurely because he is unable to dream. His solution is to set up an H.G. Wellesesque laboratory where he can try to extract the dreams of young children, unfortunately without success. Krank's henchmen are the fanatic...
...geek, "who distinguished himself by his willingness to commit the most loathsome and humiliating acts onstage--commonly, biting the head off a live chicken.... What had gone out of kilter in him was not a hormone or a chromosome, as in the case of the bearded lady or the midget, but the capacity for shame...
...think we were conscientious students. Mycronies and I headed for the smoking room afterdinner, puffed away and played bridge until around9:30 p.m., when we dashed out to the Shepard Drugor the Midget for coffee and back by 10 p.m. Thenwe started studying Grade inflation was unknown.In the first semester of my freshman year, sevenof us made Dean's List: four B's and you were astar...