Word: pretzelism
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...stage antics. When John Cleese delivers a diatribe to a shyster pet-shop owner while flogging the dead parrot that has been sold to him, the funning is lethally potent. So is the spoof on TV wrestling, in which the solo performer, Graham Chapman, is finger-jabbed and pretzel-twisted by an invisible opponent...
Fassi is regarded as skating's best compulsory figures tutor. Says Hamill: "Before I got to Carlo, I was tied up in a knot doing figures. I looked like a pretzel...
...Locust," No hopes for Tony C. could hold this crowd much longer--school was out, as far as they were concerned, and even in the year of busing and boycotts I guess that called for something special. Admission to the ballpark, at least...no pretzel vendor, not even the sunniest Opening Day sky, was going to hold them out in the street much longer...
...hospital, they eat rice, fried pork and bananas, and as their chopsticks dart from bowl to mouth, they seem almost normal-but they are not. When lunch is over, they do not stand up. Years of being shackled in the tiger cages have forced them into a permanent pretzel-like crouch. They move like crabs, skittering across the floor on buttocks and palms...
...been simply a caricature of an absent-minded professor emerges as a warmly affectionate portrait of the last living humanist. And Rigg is lovely to look at, especially in the nude, and to listen to as she delivers her lines with a resolute intelligence that seems to unbend the pretzel twists of thought...