Word: quiverings
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...tragedy of the American sit-com writer has turned out awfully shallow. This bathos gives Jack Lemmon his star turn: fast-food epiphany, downstage center. Neither he nor Slade really needed this--although it must be fun to break down onstage. Tribute slobbers when it ought only to quiver; the mask comes off and the jelly underneath dribbles all over the stage...
...golfing away his last years. But he does need more time to relax and travel, especially since his wife Babe has been ill. Says a CBS executive: "Remember that Paley is 75 and can't work 18 hours day after day. He is like Zeus without the quiver full of lightning bolts. But you've still got to keep your ears open around here for boulders crashing through the fog. Paley can still throw them...
...seems small and uncertain, a little girl dressed up. She clutches the microphone to her face ("There you go, baby, here am I"). The mike is a sponge-covered apple on a stick ("Well you left me here so I could sit and cry"). Her lips, stretched wide, quiver so close to its surface that if she were to bring her jaws together she would bite circuitry. Will Eve ("Golly, gee, what have you done to me?") bite the apple? ("Well I guess it doesn't matter any more...
...Rarely does an American newspaper need to weigh its First Amendment rights against such "national security" concerns--only once in a newsman's career, perhaps--and so when it does the decision can cause even a seasoned editor, as Talese puts it--paraphrasing Times editor Clifton Daniel---"to quiver with emotion and turn 'dead white...
...with the church is that the people in charge are more Christ-like," Larry Dewey '73, a first-year medical student, says. "The man in authority works more hours, loves more and serves more people. The idea of [taking on the job of] branch presidency just makes my soul quiver with fright...