Word: akimbo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With arms akimbo, bent knees, scraped knees, padded knees, smiles, gasps, frowns, hips lurching forward or asses behind, new creatures are invading Cambridge-the rollerskaters...
...winners. Yet he showed the same shot-making ability around the exquisitely manicured greens of Southern Hills that earned Tommy Bolt the championship there in 1958. One has to go back to the days of Leo Diegel to find a preeminent professional with such a knock-kneed and elbows akimbo stance...
...became, in effect, a kind of self-portrait without the self, with the slightly eerie aspect of a snake's shucked skin. The bathrobe in Dine's new paintings confronts the eye with a proprietorial air, the folds straight and columnar, the sleeves akimbo. The open V of the lapels gapes like a pair of garden shears. Against the odds, Dine has extracted a quite monumental presence from the floppy, unpromising substance of terry toweling...
...popping, mouth contortion and shredding of the vocal cords were qualifications for a comedienne, then Streisand would be the new Carole Lombard. But she has none of Lombard's ease of spirit, her giddy eccentricity or quick, akimbo intelligence. Streisand is only aggressive. She scrounges for laughs like a bargain-basement shopper...