Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Myths about the camel and its thirst-resistance are older than the Sphinx-and almost as durable. Well into the modern age of science, men accepted the notion that the evil-tempered animal could store a two-week supply of water in its humpor in a great, cistern-like stomach. The hump theory was the first to be discarded as so much humph. What the camel carries on its back is a reserve of fatty tissue to be consumed when the rest of the camel runs out of fuel. The story about the parched Bedouin who slaughtered his favorite camel...
Laying aside pretensions to tragedy, the American Shakespeare Festival is now offering a Richard III of strong impact. The resulting bloodthirsty and at times stomach-turning melodrama, under Allen Fletcher's direction, provides one of the most intriguing shows in the Festival's history...
...aggressor. But what is reasonable? In Washington last month, as Frances Clark, a comely 24-year-old, sat in a Chinese restaurant, a man named Zebedee Lee, 42, walked over and, by his own admission, "patted her on the buttocks." Grabbing a knife, Miss Clark stabbed him in the stomach, putting him in the hospital. Though Lee's act was technically an assault, the district attorney felt that the girl used more than reasonable force to repel it. As a result, Miss Clark, not Lee, was charged with assault...
...gaps without noticing them. Moreover, the separate screens enable the film makers-Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid -to use them in multiple combinations, now showing three aspects of one scene, now three separate scenes, now a three-dimensional, three-screen headlong ride down a plunging highway that kneads the stomach far more than the rollercoaster ride in the first Cinerama...
...arrived in Australia patting her stomach to show how thin she was and vowing that her drinking days were over. Sydney loved her. Then on to Melbourne and a sellout audience of 7,000 for a one-night stand at Festival Hall. They waited exactly an hour and seven minutes past curtain time for her to appear, and this was one time Judy was not worth waiting...