Word: muscularly
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...slender 6 ft. 1 in., he is a small man among the outsize players of professional basketball. Cousy makes up for his lack of size with cat-quick reflexes and spur-of-the-moment shots that are almost impossible to defend against. Lean and loose, he goes through muscular gyrations that would awe a contortionist. He is currently among the N.B.A.'s top scorers, the league leader in assists, and an agile defender against men half a foot taller...
From Here to Eternity (Columbia). James Jones's novel about the peacetime Army, sweated down to a fine, muscular picture; with Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra (TIME...
...Pope's policy has been "pastoral," i.e., he has tried to get along with the Communist regimes as long as they allow the Church to perform even a minimum of its functions, in order to spare the faithful persecutions and the prospect of martyrdom. There is also a "muscular"' faction in the Church-among its spokesmen are Cardinals Ottaviani, Canali and New York's Spellman-which believes that the Red regimes are slowly strangling Catholicism in Eastern Europe, and that it might be better to take a tough line, even if this should force the Church...
...acting might be too much. In Hondo, which lists him as coproducer. he talks a little more than usual, but on the other hand, plays up his physical presence in a rather peculiar way. On five separate occasions he takes long, slow walks away from the camera, rolling his muscular buttocks like a male Marilyn Monroe as he goes...
...committed suicide, reportedly over an unhappy love affair. Younger son Shane did a stretch in a federal narcotics clinic for dope addiction. Daughter Oona became Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife, and O'Neill never forgave her. World War II had sapped his will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked in a whisper...