Word: straitjacketed
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...thinking about, once a month, having a psychologist for restaurant owners," added a harried Weiss. "Or at least a straitjacket to hang on the wall in the office...
...saying ((a la Clark Gable:)), 'Frankly, my dear . . .' You just want to go ((and now he shifts into Lorre's metallic purr:)), 'My shirt! You dirtied my shirt!' " Williams needed to find a movie that dirtied his shirt, that liberated his pinwheeling raunch. Now he has. Goodbye, straight-man straitjacket. Good Morning, Vietnam...
...friend from Massachusetts, we need some specifics." But with the Democrats in ideological tandem on everything from opposition to aid to the contras to horror at the Reagan deficits, any expression of individuality is treated as major news. The Republicans will soon be debating within their own philosophical straitjacket: the need to prove they are at least as conservative as the Reagan Administration...
...wonder Soviet workers take off every Oct. 7 to celebrate the adoption of this generous charter. But the reality is that most of the Soviets' political freedoms have never existed in practice or are locked in a straitjacket of limitations. Article 39, for example, is a loophole as wide as the ruling regime wants to make it: "Enjoyment by citizens of their rights and freedoms must not be to the detriment of the interests of the society or the state...
...these are signals sent out by Steve Martin, who is too smart and funny to be fit for a movie idol's straitjacket. He began, in the early 1970s, as a stand-up comic with an unusual persona: a guy determined against all odds -- lack of charm or talent, for example -- to be the life of the party. In his first movies too he made mock of his Waspy features by playing dimwits and cuckolds. Would he restrict himself to updating Jerry Lewis when he could be Cary Grant? Not at all. For with Pennies from Heaven Martin essayed nostalgic...