Word: pincushions
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...Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket and tickle my belly button"). The geek (lowest operator on the lot, a man who pretends to eat live animals) tore the head off a live chicken and ripped at the flesh with...
...Lewis Strauss, 62, hopes to retire when his current term expires at month's end. In pressing steadily for a strongly armed U.S., in fighting proposals for an agreement with Russia to end nuclear tests, thin-skinned Lewis Strauss has absorbed more needles than a tailor's pincushion. Moreover, his chief needler, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson (TIME, May 19) is scheduled to resume the powerful chairmanship of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy next year, and Strauss believes their feud would be detrimental to the AEC program. The President wants Strauss to stay...
...Edward H. Gibson, "the human pincushion'," one of several who appeared in vaudeville at the turn of the century, let as many as 60 pins be stuck in him anywhere except the abdomen and groin. The climax of his show-business career was a crucifixion in which an assistant hammered a sharp spike through one of his hands, was ready to carry on with his other hand and feet, but the show had to be stopped because too many members of the audience fainted...
...Desperate Hours (Paramount) is a thriller that jabs so shrewdly and sharply at sensibility that the moviegoer's eye might feel that it has not so much been entertained as used for a pincushion. But to melodrama fans, it may prove one of the most pleasurably prostrating evenings ever spent in a movie house...
...story there is should additionally-in a play that makes mincemeat of clichés-use so many plot cliches itself. Where the wit is so true and the satire so topical, it seems a pity that such sharp pins should jab, in the end, little more than a pincushion...