Word: toe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...platform with a six-piece orchestra on the side," Henry says. "I thought, 'That's the way to do it-intimacy.' " To get Flip closer to the audience, Henry created a theater-in-the-round and placed emphasis on full-body camera shots. "The head-to-toe selling was important," he observes. "What Chaplin's legs were to him, Flip's body is to his program...
...humor. Once, after spending a week viewing Indonesian temples, Khrushchev turned to Indonesian President Sukarno and asked: "Don't you have anything new around here?" When he described Berlin as the American testicles that he could squeeze whenever he chose, sensitive translators changed it to the American big toe that he could step...
...after Julie Nixon Eisenhower showed up for work as a third-grade teacher at Atlantic Beach Elementary School near Jacksonville, Fla., she and a custodian were moving a book cart. It toppled over, crushing the big toe on Julie's left foot. Posing for her first picture as a housewife in the Atlantic Beach house that she and Ensign David Eisenhower have rented while he serves aboard the guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Albany, Julie showed off her large plaster cast to photographers. Then, after learning that her cast may have to remain on from four to six weeks, Julie...
...months' extension of its deadline, but by then it was obvious that what was needed was more practical assistance from Local 210. At the suggestion of Mafiosi already on the payroll, the contractor hired a "job coordinator"-Magaddino Capo John Cammillieri. In his sharply tailored suits, pointed-toe shoes, dark glasses and pinkie ring, Cammillieri was an unlikely looking straw boss for an office building construction gang. But his effect on the work force was immediate and far-reaching. For $7.10 an hour, Cammillieri did with one memo what Bateson foremen had tried to do for two years...
...Toe to Head. There has been some speculation that acupuncture affects nerve impulses or stimulates the blood supply to nerves. Dr. Li Pang-chi, the scientifically trained physician responsible for Reston's care in Peking, once had doubts about acupuncture. Now he believes that illness can be caused by imbalance between organs-and that "acupuncture can help to restore balance by removing the causes of congestion or antagonism." In acupuncture the insertions are not necessarily close to the pain or its apparent cause. For a headache, it may be the big toe that is punctured. Adherents also claim success...