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...range of a telephone dial tone," that Pickwick's "cast, whether it is singing, dancing, talking or just plain standing around, always seems to be just plain standing around," and that the Danton's Death lead, Alan Bergmann, "has a face that not even a fly could twitch-there is not an expression, a glance, an emotion that could cross it (not even, I suspect, a shadow...
...topped by a huge, sonorous fan-have found Ho ruddy-cheeked and cheerful. For a Communist boss, he has a lively sense of humor: once when Chou En-lai spoke in Hanoi, Ho sat on the stage beside the speaker, subtly aping Chou's every gesture and facial twitch, much to the audience's amusement-and Chou's puzzlement. As a carryover from his days of flight and subversion, he favors disguises, fooling even such close friends as Giap by merely rolling up his trousers to look like a country yokel...
...Overture, New Orleans jazz, rock 'n' roll-went, in effect, in one ear and out the other. They left him unmoved. On the other hand, the soft, sweet rhythms of Stardust, Deep Purple or Abide With Me gave Morton frightening seizures. He would stare vacantly, twitch, turn his head to the left, make smacking sounds with his lips, utter growling noises and sometimes slump to the floor. The Whiffenpoof Song and Indian Love Call were bad, but not quite so disturbing...
...France, to step out of the snare, would have to abandon its whole campaign for swift completion of the Common Market farm plan-and the Eurocrats were certain the French would never agree to that. But a clever diplomat never says never. Last week, without a twitch of embarrassment, Couve de Murville blandly told his colleagues in Brussels that since the Rome Treaty provided until 1970 to complete an agricultural common market, France saw no reason why everyone should be in such a hurry to finish...
They discovered that some types of internal pacemakers are so designed that a diathermy machine operated within three feet of them causes interference; the pacemaker pulses so fast that the heart cannot keep up, and so it will stop or just twitch. The same interference occurs within six inches of a neon sign, or close to the frequency-regulating coils of radio transmitters. One form of diathermy is commonly used in doctors' offices for simple surgery such as removal of warts. Human tissues afford some shielding for a patient with an implanted pacemaker, but interference may still be dangerous...