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Internally, too, the characters are furiously trying to keep things from popping out of their skin. Their ping-pong verbal exchanges--all wrist-action--are fast and funny and ultimately uncommunicative. These people don't talk, they bounce word-pellets off each other. Everything ricochets with the angle of conditioned response, an idiom of cliche, more like music than words--a high-pitched constant background. Their tough, jabbing control in conversation speaks of boys who have grown up together, pulled farther apart and more jealous of each other as they go along. Indeed, we get a connecting sense throughout...
Right wing Kathy Agoos gave Radcliffe a 2-1 lead on a wrist shot five minutes into the second period, and the 'Cliffe squad then took the play into the Brown half of the field for the rest of the game...
...major university wears many hats, and like a politician, not all of what he says should be taken at face value. While Bok's remarks in June may have been ill-advised, it would be absurd to hold a student referendum to administer a collective slap on the wrist...
...employees in Peacock's cannery who cut and can the sardines are all women. Standing next to a conveyor belt loaded with fresh fish, they grab the sardines, cut off the heads and tails with a flick of the wrist, and stuff them into the tins. "We've tried using men to pack the fish," says Peacock, "but for some reason they just don't have the stamina. They can't take it for more than a few hours...
Plunge them in up to the wrist...