Word: archings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classification (always an embarrassment to critics). Was it a put-on? Not likely. A children's story? Perhaps, but not published as one. The truth was, all that chiming rhyming and irritating alliterating were so much flimsy whimsy, which is to say a triumph of the arch, which is to say an exercise in self-consciousness-raising. It was so precious that it was not worth attacking, even as a boiler of pot. Maybe the professor was no more of a long-distance runner in the publishing world than in Boston. In which case the book pointed...
...muscular determination, for instance, is summed up in a single inflection of drawing, the grasping hands given a shade more density than the rest of his body; or how the falling curve of the nymph's back and arm, diving out of the frame, is also a rising arch that offers itself to the pursuer. One line becomes an epigram of flight and surrender...
...going home, trudging. Her legs move, putty-like; but like putty poisoned with lead. The legs lift, one after the other; arch, and plummet down. The motion is achingly slow, or so it seems to her. To the world's eyes, it is graceful. To the world, incredibly sensuous. She is going home...
...political observers in Paris are currently debating, his first step will be to sack lackluster Premier Pierre Messmer, 56, and appoint in his stead Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 47. As it happens, the suave, non-Gaullist Giscard is regarded as Pompidou's arch rival for the 1976 presidential elections. Last week he came in a close second to former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas in a nationwide popularity poll...
Harvard's varsity hockey team emerged Saturday night from a 19-day exam break to demolish NYC city club team St. Nicholas, 10-1, in an exhibition game scheduled primarily as practice for tonight's semifinal Beanpot contest against arch-rival Boston University...