Word: twitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Much Ado, Zeffirelli decided to keep the setting in Sicily's Messina but to update and garlic up the performance with farcical sight gags, snatches of Puccini, and Italian-accented iambics. Don John turns up with a twitch, Bene dick (Robert Stephens) in sunglasses and Don Pedro (Albert Finney) dangles his cigar as if he were a successful Mafia leader...
...Twitch of Vertigo. The volunteers and their medic, Lieut. Frederick R. Deane, entered the spin room on Feb. 8, when it started to turn at a lethargic 2 r.p.m. The pace was stepped up by easy stages to 10 r.p.m. Dr. Deane has spent most of his nights "ashore," while another medic took over; but the four volunteers, aged 17 to 19, have had no break in their routine. Though the room is painted the restful apple green of hospital corridors, it has no windows. Despite its homey appurtenances which include pictures of girl friends, a sink, stove, refrigerator...
...stop. A door is opened and used bedding is taken out while breakfast is brought in. Similar stops are made at noon and dinnertime for meals to be put aboard. As the room slows down, the occupants must lie down. Otherwise they would suffer vertigo. One little twitch of the head at this stage would destroy their painstakingly built-up adaptation to rotation...
...investigators recognized the possibility that Carson might have swung his ship into a fatal fall because he believed a mid-air crash was imminent. The piston-driven plane was not equipped with the all but indestructible flight recorder, which indicates every yaw, pitch and twitch of the controls on U.S. jet airliners, and which probably would bear evidence of the cause of such an accident. No matter what the ocean bottom yields, the cause of Flight 663's plunge to the sea will not be known for weeks-if ever...
...been made. Push through a pantry and you are in a replica of London's Garrison-hot red walls, Wellingtonian sconces, military drums for tables, and real plastic flowers sprouting from the ceiling. Here the young and not so young swingers may Frug, Watutsi, Swim-or just twitch-while an intellectual-looking French disque jockesse spins...