Word: stoops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exclamation points ("Then he heard a voice!"), and sometimes a bit of color seems to be lost. In Mark's Gospel, when John the Baptist talks about the Messiah as "he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie," Taylor makes the allusion more straightforward: "I am not even worthy to be his slave." In the Book of Daniel, when Nebuchadnezzar makes a gold image and orders people to worship it when they hear the sounds of "horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp," Taylor offers instead a touch...
...Boylston St., on an alley off from the sidewalk, its stucco rooms are warm in winter and air conditioned in summer. Behind the building is an awninged porch for summer eating which looks out onto a green backyard. The back porch is also the back stoop of the kitchen, and as the kitchen gets hot in summer, the sound of Iberian invective leaping from the frying pan into the fire authenticates the atmosphere...
...Moore and Davis, offstage roommates for the past two years, are teamed up in a TV format built around their real life relationship. Portrayed as co-inhabitants of a New York brownstone (separated, for propriety's sake, into separate apartments), they sing and socialize in a roof-and-stoop setting with visiting guest stars who check in each week as temporary roomers...
...moved and talked and acted as one man. They seemed to stand so close that their shoulders touched. Their gestures and walk seemed intimidating, abrupt, heavy. Nixon seemed almost languid. He was always alone or a few paces ahead of his party. A slender man, his shoulders seemed to stoop even a little more than before...
Novels, film scripts, and now directing, have naturally proved more profitable than medical practice. The film rights alone for The Terminal Man have brought Crichton $350,000 so far. Success steered him into psychoanalysis and broke up his five-year marriage. Although he walks with the slight stoop of a man concerned with not bumping his head, he seems to like towering over everyone else. On the L.A. party circuit, only the Lakers' Wilt Chamberlain could challenge this distinction. Crichton's tastes run to the sound and costly. He has a Mercedes-Benz sedan to replace a Porsche...