Word: curl
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...here's the video tape again with still another angle on lago as he evilly fingers Desdemona's hanky. And look! lago is curling the old lip just a trifle. Nice curl too, eh, Chuck? This chap was learning lip curling when the rest of that cast couldn't find the proscenium arch with both hands. Incidentally, about that hanky -you know, the star himself bought that hanky for 79? at Lamston 's just before opening when it turned out the prop man used the real thing as a dustcloth. Now back to the action onstage...
...life spent trying, a life spent setting a non-violent yet non-compliant alternative to the irrational as it builds from every side and all around, a life fighting battles that can't be won. Maybe man had no chance of ever shaping the wave, of preserving its curl, but the delusion that he did brought him closer to it. And had we been skilled enough, it would have been very odd, and very beautiful, to watch the wave roll on without breaking, higher and higher...
...House came right back, going 43 yards in seven plays to tie the score. A failure to move the ball on the ground forced Ryan to go to the air--and for once that strategy worked. Slater grabbed a pass on the end of a long curl pattern to put the Deacons at the 12, and two plays later Ryan lofted the ball over the defense into the arms of tight end Brian Jolley in the back of the endzone...
While Alexeyev struggles with the snatch, Rakhmanov comes out and starts to warm up. Briskly, efficiently, he snatches one weight, orders it increased, then hoists again with equal ease. Still .young enough to curl his back and lift with supple grace, he has clearly surpassed Alexeyev. The room reverberates with the boom and clang of weights being banged back to earth. Rakhmanov takes no notice...
Dalton has a husky, late-night and last-drink voice that can curl under and caress a ballad, or slide, like a gravity knife, to a quick sharp point that draws blood from a backbeat. She writes, or co-writes, most of her material, making sure to stash away in the lyrics plenty of shingles and cobwebs, like the recollection of "ol' Dottie" in her Beer Drinkin' Song...