Word: pattering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Owens gets the ball deep in the backfield, and the idea, he says, "is to get to the line quick. You go pitter-patter-in' up there and they'll be waiting for you with a smile. Then pow! And the lights go out." They rarely go out for Owens, even though he operates in heavy traffic-from tackle to tackle. There have been times, however, when his savage, slashing style-quick start, high knee action, body leaning forward -proved embarrassing. More than once, he has burst through into the secondary, only to have his own momentum carry...
...alliance. Leaping or striding in harmonic freedom is their thing, though they pause to explore free-time byways as well. On Sometimes Joie, Garrison coaxes quivering screeches or low-bowed hums from the bass, and on What Is This? Farrell skitters on soprano while Jones brushes out a rapid patter...
...annoyance did not keep him from giving Fielding a full hour's top-to-bottom guided tour of the premises. Trailing along behind the hotelier, Fielding kept up a steady and reassuring patter: "Hmm, new paintwork there, very good . . . Oh, I see you've installed 110 volts A.C.?that's fine"?meanwhile running his hand along the tops of doors to see if they had been dusted. Entering one room, he pointed to the bed, asked "Do you mind?" and flopped onto it, carefully keeping his feet raised to avoid getting black shoe polish on the spread...
...EVENING WITH MAX MORATH. Singer-Pianist Max Morath provides ragtime piano playing and patter on the manners of turn-of-the-century America. An amiable show for those who miss the days of cherry phosphates and trolley transfers...
...their failings by smothering their pets with love that would drive any person away. Other animal nuts are merely attempting to buy love. For still others, she quotes Sidney Jourard, a professor of psychology at the University of Florida, who suspects that in an uptight society, "the dog patter, the cat stroker, is seeking the contact that is conspicuously lacking in his adult life." "Homoneuroticus," says Mrs. Szasz, "de-animalizes his pets in exactly the same way he de-humanizes himself...