Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abrupt movements that work so well in Anaendrom and Walklyndon seem somewhat out of place in the more serious dances. Terra Cotta is a dance at deux in which a couple begin mirroring each other's movements and finally dance ensemble. Jerky steps detract from the intimacy established by otherwise graceful and romantic poses as the bodies join. But even in these dancers, the originality and diversity of the choreography sustains a great deal of excitement...
...Guard. It is not simply that Chou at age 76 was reconfirmed as Premier, a post he has held since the People's Republic was founded on Oct. 1, 1949. What is more notable is that barring an abrupt and unforeseen reversal, Chou has set China on a pronounced turn toward moderation and stability. It is a turn away from experimentalism and toward normalcy; away from the radicals of the Cultural Revolution, which raged from 1966 until 1969, and toward the old guard, whose members had been rudely and often violently ousted from power during that period...
When modernism could no longer be kept out, Benton's reputation (outside the Midwest) went into an abrupt decline, and the internationalists had their belated revenge on the man who had called them "an intellectually diseased lot, victims of sickly rationalizations, psychic inversions and God-awful self-cultivations." By 1965, the only fact a self-respecting art historian would have deemed worthy of note about even the best of Benton's work, like The Jealous Lover of Lone Green Valley (1934), would have been that the lank boy in the foreground, playing a mouth organ, was a portrait...
...bastard belonging to neither, how much literature since Hemingway and Edmund Wilson has picked up the mannerisms and styles of newspaper writing. Here, as we read the smooth flow of narratives, the captured regional accents and hestitations of the dialogues, we are almost fooled into thinking that the often abrupt, slightly non-sequitur one-liner endings to the stories may conceal some literary profundity befitting a contemporary short story. Most probably, it was merely the unmerciful cut of a harried editor...
...Pajamas. The mystery of Brezhnev's health was compounded by the medical and diplomatic ambiguities involved in the abrupt cancellation of his scheduled trip to Cairo. Although this was apparently related to Soviet-Egyptian diplomatic disagreements, an unprecedented effort was made in Moscow to display Brezhnev as a sick man. Summoned to Moscow to be informed of the cancellation, the Egyptian Foreign and Defense ministers were given white surgical gowns before being received by Brezhnev, who was lying on a couch in pajamas. According to the Egyptian visitors, the Soviet leader told them that his doctor had ordered...