Word: necked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that could tell the future. When a party of lamas descended upon the monastery, they came upon a small boy who ran up to one of them shouting, "Lama! Lama!" The boy seized a rosary that had belonged to the old Dalai Lama and hung it about his own neck. He had the protruding ears of a Buddha, the moles that marked the traces of a second pair of arms, the ability to pick out from a collection of objects-rosaries, canes, drums for summoning servants-the ones that belonged to the old man. In 1939, aged 4, seated...
...world is too much with them. La Alba's common touch has drawn deep frowns from the Queen, and to save Goya's neck, the duchess renounces his attentions and ships him back to Madrid. Feverish at the thought of her fickleness, he churns out the agonized, hellborn Caprichos. In the end, the lovers are briefly, sentimentally reunited at the duchess' deathbed...
Proctor is given a somewhat twitchy performance by John Heffernan, who must surely have the best-exercised neck-muscles on the American stage. When Mr. Heffernan finally drops his mannerisms near the end of the play, it becomes clear that they have been largely concealing a good strong piece of acting. Mary Weed, Olympia Dukakis, and Edward Finnegan contribute excellent work in a generally in-and-out cast...
...hold her husband against the competition of "pillow" geishas, concubines and casual prostitutes. The tea ceremony, the fan, the kimono, flower arranging, the obi, the intricate hairdo, the beautifully mannered deference-all became subtle weapons of allurement. The kimono was cunningly cut to reveal the nape of the neck, a feature that to Japanese men seems more erotic than bosom or thigh...
...outburst was aimed specifically at a government move to raise the wages of Indian newspaper employees. But beyond that, it was aimed at a general situation that last week saw Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's government taking a new hitch in the noose it has placed around the neck of a free press...