Word: twitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crises in affairs of the heart are more dreaded by physician, surgeon and patient alike than ventricular fibrillation -in which the heart's built-in electrical timing system fails and its lower chambers flutter futilely. Instead of beating purposefully and pumping blood to the whole body, they twitch ineffectively and pump nothing. There is no heartbeat. Doctors have tried to reverse the rapidly fatal process with a variety of electronic gadgets, but until recently no defibrillator has been able to do the job consistently. Now, some daring and resourceful doctors have become so sure they can restore a twitching...
...wealth dominates the island. Finally, Ben Smith sees what Author Ellin's cluttered symbolism has been thundering about all along: U.S. commerce and Santo Stefano cruelty are all of a piece. The self-control demanded of the self-hanged men-who lose the contest if they begin to twitch and jiggle in the noose too soon-is precisely the quiescence Seaways demands of him against the hope of prospering in the company. O'Harragh has even made a secret bargain with Bambas-Quincy to marry off his psychotic daughter to unwitting Ben in return for the contract...
Disappearing Twitch...
...rains are now bringing the best wheat and cotton crop in a decade. Says an embittered Nasser supporter: "Rain last year would have saved Nasser, and drought this year would have brought him back." Gone with the drought is the Nasser-era police state whose oppression created the "Syrian twitch"-a quick, nervous glance over the shoulder. Although Syrian prisons hold fewer than 500 "subversives"-many of them saboteurs sent in by Nasser-Syrians can no longer be jailed for more than 48 hours without formal arraignment. A degree of press freedom has been granted, and the politics-loving Syrians...
...actor has little voice left. Long ago it developed a natural quaver that he has adroitly learned to use for theatri cal effect. But he more than makes up for his vocal defects by embellishing each role with small dramatic touches of his own-a twitch here, a little shuffle of surprise there-that bring character to life. Son of a well-to-do Roman family, De Paolis made his debut as the Duke in Rigoletto at Bologna in 1919, later sang tenor leads at virtually every major house in Europe. But, he says, "I never had a large voice...