Word: twitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood's champion long-distance emotional gamut-runner, Luise Rainer has a real field day in Dramatic School. Her rich part requires her to twitch out the interpretation of a factory girl so anxious to perfect her histrionic technique that she constantly tells lies so that she will have to practice acting. The part also requires her to run through the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and declaim about the angel voices, as Joan of Arc. Poor little Paulette Goddard-co-starred presumably as part of the build-up for a forthcoming appearance as Scarlett O'Hara...
...soft, classical music had once brought her out of a similar fit. But none was available in the Los Angeles jail. Then a dapper psychiatrist named Dr. Samuel Morris Marcus took a hand. He rubbed the woman's eyelids, tickled her behind the ears. That caused her to twitch, to murmur: "Don't, Harry [the dead man], don't." But Mrs. Love did not wake up and doctors continued to nourish her through a vein with a solution of salt and sugar...
...phenomenally honest and efficient commissioner it can easily be justified. The courts have failed repeatedly to convict known gangsters, aided by shyster lawyers and self-contradictory law. These gentlemen have walked the streets, danced and drunk in the night clubs, and played golf on the municipal links without the twitch of n eye-lash-surrounded by music men and what the press euphemistically calls. "female companions". Extra-legal methods are the obvious reaction of a conscientious police commissioner to such conditions...
...violent death. In the title story one of the characters amuses himself by cutting off dogs' tails, of which he keeps a large collection in a trunk. As a fitting accompaniment to these actions, most of the people in the book display the usual pathological symptoms: they drool, twitch, giggle, and gibber in the most authentic manner...
...begins to twitch and jerk and kick into the air in the most embarrassing manner at the most inopportune times...