In a cast most conspicuous for being ill at ease, only Andrea Bianchi as Edith, the jumpy maid, seizes her moments without strangling them.
But there is welcome, tension-releasing interplay between Robert Earl Hayes David Brown Jr..) and his wife, Georgia (April Yvette Thompson), as they describe the jumpy rhythms of Mr. Hayes's return to civilian life.
His earlier book covers are his most radical, as illustrated by the jumpy doubled letters of "DADA" for "The Dada Painters and Poets" (1951) and by the torn theatre ticket, on a black ground, that wrapped the reviewer Harold Clurman's "The Fervent Years 195050).
It may be argued that drivers should be more careful to obey troops' orders, but in the dark civilians can be as jumpy as soldiers.
Anonymous Sounds as if Big Daddy likes control, or keeping you as jumpy as cats on a hot tin roof.
VETERAN investors know that, in a stock market as jumpy as this one, limit orders are the only way to trade.
They shipped 10 goals in the next three away matches – "Leeds' defence is as jumpy as a kitten on bonfire night", wrote David Hopps after a 4-0 thrashing by Manchester City – and after having the chances to beat Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, conceded to Andy Townsend with a few minutes left on the clock.
THE night his first solo exhibit opened in New York, Don DeNarie was as jumpy as a rabbit.
"Do they bite?" "Can we touch it?" students asked, as jumpy as popcorn kernels.
"I even had a kid come up to me and say, you know, 'I'm not as jumpy as I usually am,' " reported Ms. Constantine.
