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Word: twitch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exit: The girl has fallen for someone else. The Tramp sets off, his back to the camera, his bamboo cane a parenthesis of melancholy. Abruptly, the little shoulders twitch, the leg shakes off tragedy like a cramp. The head snaps to attention. Step, skip, step-the Tramp is restored, off once more on the unimproved road to Better Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Re-Enter Charlie Chaplin, Smiling and Waving | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau two years ago memorably summed up the two countries' relationship: "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly or even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt." Now Canadians have discovered what happens to a bedmate -when the elephant starts tossing and turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: Canada: Coping with a Twitchy Elephant | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

Steve McQueen's style of glacial cool has been perfected close to the point of impenetrable mannerism. Playing a racing driver in Le Mans, he only stands in front of the camera and allows himself to be photographed. Occasionally his lips will twitch into that shy, strong, ironic half-smile that he has made his trademark. In really grandiose scenes he may make a gesture. He might even wave. But only under pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Wheels: Petit Prix | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...daily, a number roughly equal to the entire work force of the huge automaker's smaller rival, Alfa Romeo. Assembly-line workers argue that they need time off now and then because the job diminishes their sexual prowess and induces a nervous tic they call the "Charlie Chaplin twitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Every Day Is Sunday | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Theoretically, a severed cat's brain might be educated to recognize and respond to a set of optical impulses and transmit signals to guide a missile onto its target. Or, cheaper still, a cat called Yossarian might be trained to twitch a certain muscle if a target he had learned was not centered on the cross hairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Catastrophe | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

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