Word: peelings
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...take the orange; someone tells you to peel it. Someone tells you to label all the parts. Someone tells you to dance it. Someone tells you to film it. Someone takes the orange away from...
What worked for the Baltimore women, though, was no help to the Cincinnati wives. They knew that nothing is worse than a losing outfit. Mrs. Jim McGlothlin polished her fingernails just before going to the ballpark, then proceeded to peel off the polish as an antidote to nail biting. It is a ploy that Merle Hendricks, wife of Oriole Catcher Elrod, could have used: she gnawed her nails throughout the Series. Oriole Pitcher Dave McNally got one kiss goodbye and one kiss for good luck on the day he pitched. Should McNally have felt more amorous, it would have been...
Moreover, the bridge authorities make it easy for the jumper. Roving uniformed patrols peel an occasional eye for prospects. But, principally for aesthetic reasons, the kind of barrier that radically reduced leaps from Manhattan's Empire State Building, for instance, has never blighted the beauty of the Golden Gate. This horrifies Shneidman, who has prodded the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, the agency responsible, to withdraw its invitation to suicide. He rejects the board's argument that if it stops the bridge jumper, he will only go somewhere else to take his life...
...Larrabee (Rock Hudson), not Charles Schulz's Snoopy. No need to worry. Hudson's canine grin and acting prowess render him a close second to the vincible puppy. All that is missing is Linus, Lucy, Schroeder & Co. Standing in for them is a series of second-banana-peel comedians. Among them: a down-at-the-heils German agent, a couple of farceurs from the French intelligence, and a pip-pip righty-o Englishman...
...Bruce Jay Friedman and Yahweh-knows-who! Will it never end? Apparently not. And what is most trying, this latest exemplar deserves special attention. For Bernard Malamud has invented a mixed-up little anti-hero all his own: the schlemiel-saint-eyes on heaven, feet on the banana peel. He has appeared in short stories (The Magic Barrel) and novels (A New Life, The Fixer). The Malamud man wobbles between laughter and tears. One minute he can be all suffering profile, squirming against his private cross. The next minute one eye winks, his shoulders shrug, his mouth gives a little...