Word: twitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cattleprod," the theory being that today's audiences are so numb from perennial TV that a movie in a theater needs a long blunt instrument wired with several hundred volts and applied to an armpit, perhaps, or some appropriate erogenous zone, in order to elicit the merest twitch of a response...
...about New York over the past decade and here it is-and Bancroft cannot make much of the bits and scraps she is given. She is misdirected by Melvin Frank (A Touch of Class) to underline cartoon New York mannerisms: a threatened rasp in the voice that can easily twitch into hysteria, a battery of body movements that look like preliminaries for infantry combat...
Chloe, the narrator of Fay Weldon's new novel speaks for all women who believe that their intellects will never free them from their biology. To her credit, Author Weldon sees high comedy in this complaint. Her characters-Chloe, Marjorie and Grace-do indeed twitch to nature's rhythms, but the thralldom of their bodies is endlessly amusing to their unfettered minds...
...Wayward Twitch...
Over the three-mile course which begins at the B.U. Bridge, a bad stroke or a wayward twitch of the rudder can mean the loss of a few precious seconds or even the boat itself. More than one impressive pursuing crew has bullied its immediate leader to destruction upon the Charles' banks...