Word: limber
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...splintered, as worshippers differ over doctrine or follow charismatic seers. Parishioners struggle over how their churches should relate to society. Says Ostling: "It's more difficult now for those of us who watch the field to decide what we should cover. We have to be a lot more limber, and continually re-examine the news." This week's assessment of the Mormon Church, on which Ostling worked with Correspondent Edward J. Boyer and Reporter-Researcher Sara Medina, reaffirms TIME's longstanding commitment to do that...
...Ballet with amusement she did not feel at the time: "I believe that I had a black leotard on, red tights and saddle shoes. I had a huge stomach, teeny little legs and this tremendous head. The teacher came up to me and lifted my leg to see how limber it was. I was desperately holding on to the barre, and the foot I was standing on went right out from under me. I was so tight, so really unsuited for dancing." Admitted to the school despite her pratfall, she renounced skates and horses forever...
...kartals crash as devotees bound to and fro, somehow avoiding a collision. They hop and leap, pony tails bobbing, mouths agape, chanting, "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare..." The energy ripples through the congregation. A man violently rocks from his waist up, glazed eyes bobbing above a limber neck. A swaying woman, dressed in a sarong, catches a red carnation. She closes her eyes, smells the flower, grins and flings it to someone else. A woman devotee bounces with her baby's face pressed in her sarong. Another child hops at her feet, his hands thrust...
Donald Martocchio and Hayes are the tappers smiling their way from adversity to hilarity, and they make the show a success. They have different styles that mesh well, especially when they try to outdance each other; you can sympathize with Hayes' upright stance or with Martocchio's more limber style...
Besides playing Shanks, Marceau appears as the old scientist and gets the chance to wear a great deal of makeup. Little else can be said of his first major screen appearance except that he is admirably limber. Castle is using him as a come-on for his movie, as if Marceau were a skeleton that glows or a hotwired seat...