Word: spastically
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...Tony for walking a tightrope in Barnum, and Stockard Channing, a lopsided-grinning gamine best known for mugging her way through the movie Grease, there could scarcely be better parts to broaden their images. Brian and Sheila cannot have anything like a normal life if they keep their helpless spastic daughter Josephine; they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state. Yet, mercifully to audiences, the story is not their sorrow but their admirable if cockeyed determination to cope. They face their nearly intolerable burdens with a giddy, all-mocking humor...
...They're one of the strongest teams in New England," Gurdal said. "We're more talented, but if we're spastic and inconsistent we won't stand a chance...
Among the other players, Catherine Colinvaux as an "idiot" successfully steals the show without uttering a line. Her wide-eyed vacant expressions and spastic contortions, reminiscent of Gilda Radner's depiction of a mentally disturbed child on the defunct "old" Saturday Night Live, graciously upstage the sorry plot unfolding around...
Being athletic, in the opinion of some, also doesn't seem to matter. "It's a good sport because you can play if you're spastic; I haven't found it too difficult. It keeps people off the streets," sophomore novice Jay Berinstein concluded...
...which Mary's share was $120,000. After a year of five-or six-day binges followed by several days of sleep and then more binges, Mary had run through most of the inheritance, lost 20 Ibs. and, in her rundown condition, developed back pains and a spastic colon...