Word: necked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rambaldi's monsterpiece is about the height of a four-year-old child, with a large, lumpy, pulsating skull, a neck that extends or retracts according to mood, skin that is a very alien gray-green when E.T. is healthy, and long, marvelously graceful arms with four-digit hands. He is very strange and complex in his repertory of emotions, although he is allowed only a ten-word speaking vocabulary (his voice is that of an 82-year-old woman with some electronic distortion). He is onscreen most of the time, and he takes a firm, sure hold...
Moko is a nubile, café-au-lait disciple of Eros, bare to the waist; Mary, a Whistleresque composition in white, is buttoned to the neck. Sechele looks like a prototype of the Noble Savages; Livingstone shuffles about, bowed by duty...
...running for Middlesex County district attorny, was officially on the floor as a Sargent at Arms though he spent less time clearing the aisles than he did cluttering them with constituents whose hands he wanted to shake. Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci had a Page's tag around his neck but spent the afternoon chatting about conventions of years past--his first was in 1936--and trying to gainer votes for his son Peter, running for the state legislature...
Roger Rosenblatt's excellent piece on the Anglo-American relationship does, however, perpetuate a myth. America did not "save England's neck." This is particularly true of World War II. For well over two years America slept while Britain held Hitler's forces at bay. By the time the U.S. awakened, the Battle of Britain had been...
...where to deploy troops appears to have been an ex-horse thief. Certainly he was an alcoholic and a womanizer. At the end of a night spent listening to gypsy music, he would reel after prostitutes, the gold cross the Tsarina had given him swinging from his neck...