Word: squirming
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...beaten and humiliated his wife in public. Several described seeing Lorena Bobbitt after such episodes with bruises on her arms, legs, and head. One witness, a close friend of Mr. Bobbitt, claimed that the latter had told him that during sexual encounters "he [John Bobbitt] liked to make girls squirm and bleed and make them yell for help...
...speech last year, comedy great Bill Cosby was critical of the "vulgarity" of shows such as Martin. After all, the Cosby Show was able to be hugely funny with material that didn't make you squirm if your grandmother entered the room. "I don't think Martin is a show that's projecting us forward," says Dr. Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School and a former consultant to the Cosby Show. "Cosby was concerned about the limited range of roles blacks were playing on TV. Most sitcoms show a street-smart buffoonish image, but there...
...first thing you notice about Harvard Coach Joe Restic is The Nose. Large, long, and crooked as a crag, it functions in conversation as a kind of vagrant puppy dog, pursuing your glance with friendly persistence. You squirm and wiggle in your chair, brush imaginary lint from your shirt and tie your shoes a couple of times to avoid its forthrightness, but it's no use. Slowly, surely, you settle into your chair, turn to The Nose and submit to his intent eyes...
...maneuver its paper loop under the largest goldfish in the tub, and lift it swiftly out of the water. I watched the goldfish as it lay tenuously in an iridescent arc, its tail and head hanging over the sides of the fragile circle. In a second it began to squirm and twitch. Tail and head arched spastically upward to meet the other, reversing the direction of its parabolic arc. The goldfish's contorted torso drilled through the water-weakened paper, slipped bodily through the loop in a fluorescent shimmer, and fell, like a leftover firecracker spark, into the water...
Klugman still plays tough guys as well as anyone in terms of face and gesture. But the voice is an essential instrument for an actor, and his now lacks both resonance and nuance. Some spectators ache for him, others squirm in discomfort, but few can immediately lose themselves in the character and story line. Randall, who played comedy with depth and complexity on his TV series Love, Sidney, is hammy onstage, if less excruciatingly so here than in a Feydeau farce last season...