He has some strange, spastic malady that causes him to speckle his dark suit with cigarette ashes and occasionally wrestle with his own rebellious arm that periodically jerks into an involuntary Nazi salute.
Later, he lowered himself, jerk by jerk, into a modified split, then sprang back into a standing position, using nothing, it seemed, but his bent left ankle.
"Right now we're somewhere between the arm in 'Dr. Strangelove,' " which involuntarily jerked into a Nazi salute, "and the Luke Skywalker arm in 'Star Wars' where he turns it on and it's fully naturally functional.
This ballet comes in two variations: the minimalist version, where the creature will simply keel over right where it stands, or the classical version, where it will jerk into a mad dash across the fields, leaping over anything in the way, a ridiculous sight akin to watching a sumo wrestler jogging.
(Anna, anonymous donation) In our donor's particular case, we know that he had an altruistic reason for doing it … He'd observed infertility in his family, and had agreed to help another woman, which is, er, much better than it being a … student jerking into a cup to pay to go out to buy a few more beers.
Of course, you have to do what you have to do, and films featuring Keith Morris of Circle Jerks screaming into a microphone aren't exactly cash crops.
At a certain point this would-be shocker suddenly jerks into high gear and becomes a blatant, incompetent rip-off of "Psycho".
Just watch him at work in "The Addams Family," a walking zombie of a musical that jerks into authentic life mostly when Mr. Lane is using his knife-sharp comic talents to make bad jokes seem good, and good jokes seem great.
From the moment the New Guineans choose to aid the stranded Americans, their culture is jerked forward into a callous, evangelizing modernity.
One was a hunched woman in her 80s who, when she grabbed my friend and jerked him into a slow dance, seemed to have risen from the dead.
