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Though she allows her tale to veer toward farce, Tyler always checks it in time with the tug of an emotion, a twitch of regret. Morgan's responses are outrageous, but his stimuli are natural. He reminds Bonny of how he used to fear that their baby girls would die: " 'Relax,' you'd say. Remember? But now look: it's as if they died after all. Those funny little roly-poly toddlers, Amy in her Oshkosh overalls-they're dead, aren't they?" His bitter conclusion: "They've dumped their hamsters...
Every court must have a king. Jerome Robbins is the monarch of West Side Story. Beyond that, he is the Jove of theater choreography. His dances are thunder bolts of invention, and his dancers are the messengers of his precise, uncompromising will. From the faintest twitch of a shoulder to hurricane tides of mass action, he is the master of the rhetoric of bodily motion. He can turn his dancers into airborne balletic Ariels who touch the ground merely to skip skyward again...
...Bill would look at me through his dark glasses and wink (or was it a twitch) and smile (or was it a leer), and say to whomever happened to be sitting on the wooden stool next to his, "What a smile. God, she looks mischievous! Look at those pretty lips." I thought of Red Riding Hood--the better to do what with? I got attention, kisses on the hand, compliments. One of the waitresses came...
...alter that regimen for last week's Spartakiad What is worse, Mayes has made a few converts. He has taught the cleaning women his practice gym to lay down their brooms and pick up the beat. Wearing toothless smiles and saying "disco disco," they twitch to the music in a most un-Soviet manner...
When technical hiccups occur, the whole global system often begins to tremble and twitch. Example: just as U.S. refinery capacity was being strained by the demand for gasoline, Exxon was hit in late March by a freak fire at its Bayway Refinery in Linden, N.J. The accident has knocked out some 160,000 bbl. per day of refining production until at least June. That has kept the company switching around tankers on the high seas, sending them to other refineries in a desperate rush to make sure that every drop of crude is refined in a hurry...