Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach John Chase will fill in for Preston tonight with sophomore Morgie Hatch. This will be Hatch's first varsity game, for he broke his left wrist in a pre-season practice injury. Joe Kittredge will take over Preston's old position of center, while Hatch will play left wing and Bill Garrity right wing...
...Modigliani swept him off on their absinthe binges, though he himself never touched a drop. Matisse dropped around to ask how he made his lines so thin and firm (he does it by holding the brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss me because I smoke Lucky Strikes...
...yelled: "I'm a happily married man!" seized her wrist, and "dumped" her. "It hurt," she cried. "I was also humiliated. I said, 'Where do you think you are-in the movies? Keep your damned doll...
...stride at all as he meets the ball. The usual forward stride, he thinks, is a waste motion and throws a power hitter off balance. To get maximum power into his own swats, Leftfielder Kiner uses the same delicate combination that is found in a perfect golf swing-pivot, wrist-snap and timing...
...change. There is none of the shock technique of The Public Enemy -no audience-deafening gun blasts, no close-ups of the killer's eyes or of the sickening sprawl of the corpse. The new brutality is streamlined. .White Heat is sprinkled with an improved type of wrist action in blackjacking, so effective that the camera does not even bother to examine the victim. The traditional movie chase, with its essentially simple machinery, has evolved into a studious, highly technical battle in which the combatants use telephones, oscillators, triangulation equipment and poker faces...