Word: twirled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white, performs death-defying feats with never a hair misplaced nor a dirty fingernail. From time to time his teeth literally sparkle. Jack Lemmon, reading his lines at a steady 130 decibels, is the spoof villain. As black-clad Professor Fate, equipped with a stovepipe hat, a moustache to twirl and gnomish assistant (Peter Falk), he is forever launching devilish devices against Leslie and forever being Foiled Again. Natalie Wood is a pert, cigar-puffing suffragette who goes along as girl reporter on the great automobile race from New York tp Paris, via Siberia...
...American complex about weight by stressing that hard-wheat spaghetti contains only 300 calories a serving and is rich in B and E vitamins. Agnesi hopes to prove that it is also so filling that Americans, who can be distinguished at the table by their knife, fork, spoon, twirl, twist, scoop, slurp, and even chop, techniques, will not reach for richer foods...
...colleges have always had their ancient rivalries, marching bands and majorettes. But their battle cry was usually "three yards and a cloud of dust." The pros learned that bands can be hired, Copa girls can be taught to twirl a baton, and all rivalries get ancient after a while. When they also discovered the forward pass-the tantalizer, the equalizer, something everyone in the stands could see-they were on their way to owning the world. The forward pass was not invented by the pros; it had been around since 1906. But in the hands of such quarterbacks as Sammy...
...Mori) he develops a masterly portrait of the power complex, and in scene after scene he examines with incinerating irony a way of life in which profits come first and people last. Occasionally the actors, trained to the grand grimace in the Japanese theatrical tradition, seem all set to twirl their mustachios and scream: "How now, me proud beauty!" But within his conventions Kurosawa is a realist, and when he does a caricature he does it in acid. The Bad Sleep Well is not quite so strong as his strongest pictures, but it has the vulgar energy, the cutting relevance...
Playful? Make your own phone ring. Dial 911, wait for the tone, twirl a seven, and hang...