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As Nate stands inside this place that’s entirely out of character for his dad, he daydreams about what his father might have done, a string of visions that includes Jenkins doing a herky-jerky dance to Ted Nugent’s “Journey to the Center of the Mind” and ripping bong hits with bikers, ending on a darkly hilarious note with Nathaniel Sr. turning into a sniper.

From Salon

He suggested that “ugly women… I mean feminists” won’t want to hear this, but that candidates need to win over swing states by “making a farmer feel like he’s got a shot. Burr moved on to Trump, mocking his herky-jerky moves, which he said might have thwarted an assassination attempt, and chiding him for his appearance at a McDonald’s. “That’s the only time I’ve ever seen that guy truly happy,” Burr said.

One string of scenes that follows Mel’s hospital stay physicalizes the sensation of being on prescription painkillers by showing her and her co-stars break into choreographed body rolls and herky-jerky movements during normal conversations – a creative way of capturing the experience of being cognizant but not all there while mightily striving to maintain the appearance of being fine.

From Salon

Unlike running or my herky-jerky stints on the Nordic Machine strider in the basement, there was no specter of calories.

From Salon

The herky-jerky ride further damaged the bones, but the specimen was intact enough that the scientists felt comfortable formally classifying it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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