Word: puckering
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...faint pucker played fitfully across his cheeks. Between moves, he toyed with a fan. In every other respect, Ryuji Iyeda last week remained glacially calm. Only 28, he was taking on nine of the best Go players simultaneously in Manhattan's Nippon Club. But then Iyeda has been playing the ancient Oriental board game constantly since he was eight, now ranks as a fifth Dan professional (ninth Dan is highest) in his native Japan, where Go has been the national indoor game for as long as anybody can remember. Besides, this time was really only a warmup: later...
Director Alexander Mackendrick (Tight Little Island, A Boy Ten Feet Tall) has perfected the art of making small films immoderately successful. In High Wind, he shrewdly sugarcoats every point, spinning his 19th century yarn in such lively style that only discerning palates will pucker at the aftertaste. His subjects are the Thornton children, a quintet of improper Victorians who, along with two Creole friends, are packed off from Jamaica to be properly educated in England. En route they are inadvertently abducted when their ship is hijacked and they wander aboard the pirate vessel, manned by a dissolute captain (Anthony Quinn...
...blare of brass and a gathering bloodbeat of drums, the dancers in the two long lines-men on one side, women opposite-hop forward, jump back, hop-hop-hop ahead, and then kiss-kiss-kiss. After that, both lines shift right so that new partners pucker into view for the next round of "letkiss," the non-dance craze that has Munich on tiptoe...
...South Viet Nam begin a mission over Communist territory, they never fail to take foot-square chunks of thick steel plate. As seat pads, the pieces of steel are not much comfort. But as protection from Red bullets, they often mean the difference between life and intestine-ripping death. "Pucker up, and pray," is the cry over the intercoms as the brave men who fly the choppers into the Mekong Delta head off toward the land of vertical gunfire...
...Pucker Up & Blow. The Jug Band's anchor man is Fritz Richmond, 24, a shaggy, red-haired bean pole who plays washtub, stovepipe and jug. He is so immersed in washtub playing that once, while in the Army, he got carried away and played a Quonset hut by nailing the door shut, stringing a wire from the doorknob to the tip of a 10-ft. pole and strumming. "It made a deep, very deep sound," he says, lost in wonder at the effect. His present instrument is a $2.49 Sears, Roebuck washtub, but metal fatigue forces...