Word: pinnings
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Right on cue, a dapper, greying man in a brown double-breasted pin stripe, wearing a pair of heavy shell-rimmed glasses, sauntered jauntily up to the witness stand. As the applause quickened, he turned, bowing and smiling to his expectant audience, maneuvering his profile skillfully in the fusillade of exploding flashbulbs. With forefinger dramatically outstretched, he raised his hand for the oath. To the first, identifying question he replied: "Motion picture actor-I hope...
Balding Sam Wood, producer and director (For Whom the Bell Tolls), had no hesitation in using the word Communist and in applying it to some of the cinema's best-known writers: Donald Ogden Stewart, Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson. But Wood was not content merely to pin the label on them. Said...
...Editor smiles and says he will fix that. And he does. He gets me a grey pin-striped suit, double-breasted, with shoulders that I can grab in my fist and make look like a football. The Editor doesn't forget anything. He finds me a tie that leaves me as flat as warm beer, and then insists I put a ruptured duck in the lapel of the suit, and find a shirt that isn't button-down. The hat I wear looks like something out of the Front Page...
...intern, she began working with cretins and morons. Then she decided to study how normal kids were brought up. She visited schools, was horrified to see rows of children kept immobile behind their desks "like butterflies transfixed with a pin." This, Maria Montessori declared, did not discipline the children; it "annihilated" them...
...holding their breaths and disregarding the pistoning of their hearts, they were able to isolate the mysterious sounds and pin them on their noisy muscles. When they wiggled their ears, flexed their neck muscles or worked their jaws, they produced crescendos of noise. It was the first time human ears had ever heard the sound of human muscles...