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...Contessa de Boca Raton stands, leonine in her splendor, arms akimbo, before a room of unconscious noble men and women. Overcome with the ennui which plagues her class, she had stepped outside for a smoke while the guests of her sister-in-law, the Grafina Spielstein, chattered pointlessly. Her husband, the Duke de Imbroglio is off in search of young children, as he is wont to do after a drink or two. The Contessa has reentered after only a few minutes to find her fellow nobles blitzed on some non-medicinal herb. She is disgusted and lonely. She spits...
Ignoring the inconsistencies, Angela Lansbury and George Hearn resolutely fashion three dimensional characters out of cardboard cut-outs. Arms akimbo, Lansbury's Mrs. Lovett radiates a sweetly amoral survival instinct. Her bumps and grinds add a necessary looniness to this character who makes meat pies...
Then bedlam. An argument broke out among the six judges. The Rumanian coach ranted. The crowd chanted Davidova's name and clapped in unison. A smaller Rumanian claque shouted "Nah-dee-yah! Nah-dee-yah!" Nadia stood motionless, arms akimbo, eyes far away. Twenty-eight minutes after her dismount, the scoreboard flashed the disheartening news: 9.85, only good enough for the silver...
Draft registration has unquestionable symbolic value, domestically, as the political success of Carter's arms-akimbo military posture shows. It plays on a centuries-old collective emotion, the kind of thing history texts mention under the heading "Rise of the Nation-States." Napoleon's levee en masse introduced the modern world to the idea of the nation-in arms, and the rest of Europe ended up adopting the same means to frustrate France's expansionary ends. National mobilization took the very decision of war and peace out of the hands of European leaders in August 1914; once the go-ahead...
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...