Word: pliant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that resounds to the thunder of Gay Nineties music. When a doll-like male dancer collapses amid the frenzy, he is hustled belowstairs to a cubbyhole as though there could be no reminder of human ills at the frolic. A reluctant doctor (Claude Dauphin) is pulled away from a pliant girl to attend the patient and discovers that, under an ingenious, dandified mask, the sick man is an aging wreck. Dauphin takes the broken dancer home and listens reflectively, while the man's equally aged wife alternately complains and boasts about what an incurable roue her husband is. Then...
...Pilgrimage of Bixie Davis," Wallach takes a cut at the picaresque, naturalistic novel as typified by Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie March." "Lilian was pliant and I molded her. Her love and muscle, tore through the Grand Central Station of my mind to the Chicago of my belly. What for myself did I out of all this want?... Then she rose, Cleopatra-thighed but unasped, and went to her room where she Godiva'd, belly-bundled, a Marie Antoinette with a bagel...
...Team. At the table, Molotov, when confronted with a coordinated opposition, proved surprisingly pliant on procedure-though not on program. Another surprise was to see the Western Big Three, who often make headlines by their differences, functioning as smoothly as a basketball team. They were prepared, they were assured, and they refused to be diverted or divided. Much of this new drive came from John Foster Dulles...
...Spanish side, the Sultan's representative is pliant, unventuresome, 43-year-old Caliph Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehed. cousin of the exiled sultan and nephew of the new. The Spanish have persuaded the caliph to condemn the French change of rulers, but he is also believed to have secretly telephoned his congratulations to the new. French-backed Sultan...
Labor, though relatively pliant at first, stiffened the instant that the WSB made its recommendations. Having caught the Board in one of its weaker moments, the Steelworkers refused to give up their gains, even during the last minute negotiations when management was anxious to compromise...