Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bank teller, Bob finds himself unjustly accused of rifling the tills and takes to the hills with his seven momless moppets and their inevitable mongrel. A fair enough premise for a one-man vehicle, but Hope is almost lost in a cast of characters that includes a slopstick baby sitter (Phyllis Diller) and her detective boy friend (Jonathan Winters), mouthing a script that contains relentless japes about little boys' bladders and big girls' figures...
...still sucks his thumb and sleeps in a set of Dr. Denton drop-seat pajamas. Forbidden by Mamma to leave the suite or even answer the telephone, the son is delightfully alarmed to discover that his hotel womb has a view. Specifically, the view includes the resident baby-sitter (Barbara Harris). But when he tries to get Mother out of the way by arranging a date for the old nymph with a local satyr (Hugh Griffith), she coolly arranges a harpy ending...
...months in Los Angeles to one year or more in New York; but any white couple willing to take a Negro or Indian child is likely to have it arrive so fast that they do not even have time for one last night on the town without a baby sitter. Probably no more than 500 to 1,000 families have taken multiracial children, but the results are usually heartening...
...America," said the visiting Danish physician, "is an uncomfortable chair." The University of Copenhagen's Dr. Egill Snorrason hastened to add that much the same is true in Europe. Chairs, he complained, have traditionally been designed for show, with little or no regard to their effects on the sitter's back. From the hard, right-angled church pew at one extreme, to the overstuffed club chair at the other, he told a Yale-New Haven Medical Center forum last week, most chairs fail to give support where it is most needed: in the lower back...
...result, said Dr. Snorrason, the sitter's muscles and ligaments stretch and he becomes fatigued. Long periods in a conventional chair can cause lumbago (generalized pain in the loins), sciatica from pressure on the sciatic nerves, or even contribute to disk displacement resulting in extremely painful pinched nerves in the lower back...