Word: stutteringly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baritone voice, and graying, sandy hair. He has an easy, likable manner and a quick wit he often turns on himself. His self-deprecation springs from his country roots in Minnesota. His father was a Methodist minister of Norwegian background who spoke with both a strong accent and a stutter. To augment his $1,800-a-year church salary, he sold corn and cabbages out of his garden. His mother Claribel helped out by giving piano lessons. Fritz, as he was called, had his own chores, like gathering corncobs to burn in the kitchen stove instead of coal...
...hard on you?" one juror asked the foreman, Jackson, the next morning. "No, it ain't hard," he replied. "Maybe someone else should do it," said one member, pointing out Jackson's stutter. The retired janitor agreed. He was promptly replaced by Coffey, at 22 the youngest juror, who was now firmly convinced of Hinckley's innocence. The deliberations began to stumble toward a conclusion...
...first staging--unfortunately isn't very funny and certainly isn't very sweet It's hard to tell what it is Pathos can be gripping, but only when the people are worth caring about The folks in The Floating Lightbulb are real enough; like anyone, they screw around, they stutter, and they cry. But there is nothing special about them, and it takes too much effort to care. Without making the play funny enough to spark our empathy through laughter, Allen leaves us flat. The play, its characters, and the emotions it hints at go nowhere...
Only moments before, Mayer, who had been hampered by a sore foot until Monday's practice, almost notched her first goal (and the first by any upperclassmen) this season. After taking a feed from Carrillo, the second team All-Ivy junior used a stutter-step move to evade two Tufts fullbacks and unleashed a hard drive that rocketed just over the crossbar...
...hours later, the symphony-probably its composer's third-proved to be genuinely Mozartean. A dashing allegro assai with a surprisingly sophisticated development (perhaps Leopold had a hand in here) is followed by an Italianate andante that ambles along amiably, the gracious, formal melody accompanied by a distinctive stutter-step in the violas. The presto finale is a sprightly...