Word: stilting
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Like Touch. In action, stilt-legged Quarterback Staubach is vaguely reminiscent of an ostrich. As he steps up behind the center, his arms hang loosely, and he shakes his fingers like a high-jumper warming up for the bar. Then he grabs the ball, rolls out to his right, and the fun begins. "At this point," says a Navy coach, "nobody knows what he's going to do except Staubach and God." He may pass, he may run, or he may just drop back 25 or 30 yds., before he makes up his mind. Navy linemen no longer block...
...Stilts & Filler. Two packs of savage short-haired dogs, Pavlovingly trained by Victoria Olkhovikova, line up every night to play soccer. They head the ball expertly, smash into one another, knock over nets and goal posts in canicidal scoring rushes, spill out of bounds by the yelping dozen, and engulf helpless photographers in their wild, uncontainable scrimmage. A man walking on 8-ft. stilts steps onto a springboard; two men jump onto the other end of the springboard, and the stilt man arcs into the air, 25 ft. up, slowly turning over in a backward somersault, landing perfectly...
...tank, hit by a shell, stops stunned, reels backward, writhes like a colossal metal insect in torment, the turret turning from side to side like a huge head and the tip of the long slender deadly gun glaring balefully in all directions like a big evil eye on a stilt...
...Gaulle was at his happiest last week, touring the green and wooded hills of Franche-Comte, plunging like a stilt-walker amid cheering crowds, grasping outstretched hands, patting the heads of schoolchildren, and leading community sings of the Marseillaise.- He acted as if the Algerian problem were over and for gotten, and promised his listeners that now "we shall build Europe, the real Europe, the Europe of peoples, and thus the Europe of states and not of words, myths and schemings." But in Algeria there was more terror (see above), and behind him in Paris were frustrated legislators, politicians...
...Legacy, an early 18th century piece by Wilt the Stilt Marivaux, deals with Love, Marriage, and money, with the emphasis where it belongs. Sandra Prutting and Jacqueline Tabachnick are both winning as they lay their claims on M. Mills (who is losing his heart and 200,000 francs). But he takes it well, because the French are a gay people, fond of dancing and light wines...