Word: twirled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, some things in life are predictable. Luis Tiant is one. El Tiante will whirl and twirl for 20 more next season and the Red Sox will return for another summer of baseball and intrigue. And sports writers will continue to come up with excuses for why their pre-season predictions went wrong...
Many cleft lips show the defect only on one side, some are in the middle, and some affect both sides. Millard wanted to work first on a simple, unilateral case. As a boy in North Carolina, he had been a rodeo fan and had learned to twirl a lariat. So during some friendly horseplay, he literally lassoed a ten-year-old Korean boy and lollipopped him into the medical hut. (His parents could not be reached for approval.) When the stitches were removed, the result was so good that the boy became a walking, talking testimonial to Millard...
...their cloaks and masks, Borg leaves them with nothing more than their power as performers to carry on the disguise--not as real-life caricatures but as apparitions, dark imaginings. The work ends with a swift reversal of the transformation: cutting short their interaction as performers, the three twirl each alone, bobbing down to snatch up their overcoats, becoming one again with their masks...
...potter sitting at his wheel will give it a practice twirl between his palms
Mobility and Safety. Why should a rock star want to turn himself into a walking wireless transmitter? Great mobility onstage, for one thing. Free from the long electric umbilical cord that connected him to the mother amplifier, he can twirl, somersault, even leap into the audience, without strangling himself. Nor need he worry about accidental electrocution. No laughing matter that. Because of the touching of frayed wires or the shorting out of cables caught in puddles during rainy open-air concerts, many musicians have been jolted by violent charges, and one was killed-Les Harvey, lead guitarist with Stone...