Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dazzling virtuoso. "After I first heard Heifetz, I cried for a week," he says. Nor, when he conducts an orchestra, is he a prima donna of the podium. Frequently, in fact, he is not even on the podium, preferring to lead unobtrusively from within the ranks with a toss of his head and a wave of his bow. Nor, as an intermittent member of the Budapest Quartet for more than 35 years, has he ever sawed away on anything but the No. 2 violin part. In short, he has made a career of playing second fiddle...
Kipling's instructions are clear enough: ;'If you can make one heap of all your winnings;/ And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings . . ." Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's scapegrace uncle, could do all of this and did, time after time, with astonishingly consistent results. He kept on losing...
...quick-tempered powerhouse, an ogre. Later, when he returns from the arena brandishing a bloody sword, he makes a wonderful effect not by howling, "Cut off this right hand," but by whispering it in self-horror. The director has undercut one of Shaw's points by having Ferrovius toss a coin to the Roman Centurion rather than to the prescribed old beggar...
...skill at twirling and tossing dough ten feet into the air made Pizza Baker Camillo Calogero a consistent crowd pleaser at a Lynbrook, N.Y., pizzeria. Then, one day last September, his neck was broken in an auto accident; he was no longer able to make the flamboyant motions needed to fling high the pizza dough. The 33-year-old father of three children sued for damages. Rejecting a defense claim that pizza can be simply flattened on a table with the hands, and considering other injuries to Calogero, a twelve-man jury awarded him $335,000. At his old salary...
...questions. Ashamed to admit racial or religious prejudice, people who answer polls sometimes resort to artful lying. Though 80% tell interviewers that they will vote, only 65% do so. To prevent bias, interviewers ask trip-up questions ("When did you vote last?" "Where are you registered?"), and toss out roughly one-fifth of the respondents on the ground that they are unlikely to vote...