Word: squirmingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House foreign policy aide says, that the Kremlin's fulminations are "80% Soviet propaganda" intended to force the U.S. to dilute its comprehensive, tough position on arms control. Carter has thus vowed to "hang tough." He feels that there is nothing wrong with making the Soviets squirm occasionally, and that the U.S. public has been getting fed up with what has appeared (often erroneously) to be Moscow's taking advantage of detente...
Sumptuous sounded more accurate to me. Powerful. "Cleopatra," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "Reflections in a Golden Eye" where she takes a whip to Brando's face. There were times when she'd made us squirm, uncomfortable with the guts of her performance, shown us the violent capacity of human emotions...
...three of them were putting on a familiar Greek show of stubborn taunts mixed with something soft and weary, that always seems to end in resignation. I soon learned that the lament, "What can you do." (with a period), is an uncontestable way to squirm out of a tight spot, a nearly infallible method for stifling conversation and a tirelessly whispered non sequitur, paired with a byzantine, palms-up gesture...
...Jaws sequels, rip-offs and derivations. Universal is presently at work on the official reprise, Jaws II. Other studios will soon bring forth films about marauding crocodiles, deadly swarms of bees, a car - apparently driverless- that terrorizes a small town, and a plague of earthworms, this last called Squirm. Most of these items hold little promise, but perhaps some small consolation may be found in the fact that the folks who made Grizzly have already produced what will probably stand as the bottom of the cage in this particular film genre...
That prospect is certainly making his rivals squirm. Some analysts expect Wallace could win as much as 25% of the Massachusetts vote (assuring him a quarter of the state's 104 delegates to the National Convention). As Wallace put it last week to TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell, "A lot of chickens I talked about for years have come to roost in Boston. They're roostin' all over in Detroit and San Diego and even some in Boston...