Word: spining
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...extremely colorful language, the absence of any impulse to help little crippled old ladies into the cab, ignorance of any landmark destination, an uncanny facility for shooting headlong into the most heavily trafficked streets in the city, a foot whose weight on the accelerator is exceeded only by its spine-snapping authority in applying the brakes. Extra marks are awarded the driver who traverses the most potholes in any trip; these are charted for him by the New York City Department of Craters, whose job it is to perforate perfectly good roadways into moonscapes...
...could hold a guttering candle to Neil Simon's. Or that the music and lyrics would be found in Stephen Sondheim's or Richard Rodgers' wastebaskets, let alone their bottom drawers. The book relies loosely on Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, never as a spine chiller but as a rib splitter...
...crowned a cannibal as the king of kings for our country. Ask the head hidden under the crown. That divine head is nothing but a cannibal's head. The cannibal with a machine gun, the cannibal with a whip, the cannibal with an iron mesh heating your bottom and spine until you vomit your brains out--yes, this cannibal is here...
Diana Olney at number four had an unfortunate day. After winning a tight first set, 7-5, she was forced to default late in the second set because of nagging back problems. However, sophomore Ann Kaufman registered a spine-tingling 6-1, 6-3, triumph at number five, and Kathy Fulton rounded out the singles matches in style with a 6-2, 6-3 drubbing of Ann Garrison...
Monk solos to her own compositions for voice and organ (the latter resonate through part I as well). Monk says she discovered in 1966 that "voice has a spine," that she could use her fully mature voice the way she was trained to use her dancer's body. Ever since, she's worked on finding the connection between dance of the voice and of the body...