Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest lead the Terriers could muster in the first half was three points, which were quickly erased when Muscular Merle pumped in eight consecutive markers...
...electrical impulses that pass along the nerves to work the muscles. After an amputation, especially below the elbow, the nerve-muscle system still works as far as the stump of the limb. With this in mind, Moscow Scientists A. E. Kobrinsky and V. S. Gurfinkel decided to use these muscular contractions to make electric currents. In effect, they set about reversing nature's process. The resulting currents are so minute that they have to be enormously amplified to work an artificial limb...
Such oracular instincts bring a muscular moral to most Graham ballets, but she tempers her preachments with ironic wit and a healthy interest in all circumstances that cause the hips to quiver. Her choreography is full of strangely natural distortions of movements from life-leaps and spread-eagle stretches, fluttering fingers, crawls, great sweeps of outstretched legs, pelvic rolls and caresses.* Her open-air approach to sex makes her company more masculine than most-though the soft little scrimmage in her new Secular Games manages to make even her strong male dancers look disturbingly dainty...
...spite of the tatic nature of most of his role, Herlihy made clear one mutation, when, in the face of Davies' increasing demands, he asserted himself. Of the three, Herlihy's performance was the most striking; mad roles are usually strong, but Herlihy captured the muscular slackness, wandering eyes, broken sentences, and general indirection of some real schizophrenics with astonishing exactitude. It is very unfortunate that he has been obliged to leave the play in the middle of its run; his replacement, Paul Benedict, will have a hard time filling the role as well...
...messenger arrives as bidden, with all the papers from London. The Beaver frowns intently through them all, giving special attention to the London Daily Express, the muscular morning giant of 4,300,000 circulation that is the cornerstone of his press combine. Soon the terrace is littered with newsprint that has been studied swiftly and as swiftly discarded. "Vines!" booms Beaver brook, and he begins firing orders to his private secretary at so rapid a rate that Vines, who is a mere mortal of 30 years, cannot keep up and sends for a tape recorder. Then off to London...