Word: archness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fondness for its military capability; it was appreciated for its political value as a testimony to NATO's credibility. Said Perle: "The Pershing II is a keystone in the overall deployment plan. I think the Soviets have understood, as we have, that if you remove the keystone, the arch will crumble...
...They all pass some construction sites where people run over to pick new stones and bricks. No paving stones in Chicago. A guy is going past a Rolls Royce. He plants one foot ahead of him. Stops, pivots like a shortstop bringing his arm down in a big arch. His club takes out the windshield. Someone else opens the back door, rips out the phone or something, and leaves. Middle-aged people looking out from the lobby of the hotel and standing in furs on the street are visibly upset...
...popular "Revelations" or "Memoria." Choreographed by Eliza Monte with music by Steve Reich. "Treading" was danced, or rather synthesized, by Sarita Allen and Kevin Brown. The abstract work moves to music reminiscent of African drumbeats in a modern electric synthesizer or a xylophone. Slowly, the two bodies stretch, plie, arch and contract together and apart as the man and woman unite. The technical strength of the two dancers is apparent every moment, as they balance on one leg or develop their legs into high back arabesques...
...Ulen couldn't help but be jenous. Harvard's first men's swimming coach ended his 20-year career with an 82 percent average against then arch rival Yale his greatest win coming in 1937 when his squad ended the Elis 164 meet winning streak...
...nubile patient and finds happiness under the ironic eyes of Sigmund Freud's fantasy-ghost (Alec Guinness). The film was written and directed by Marshall Brickman, who collaborated with Woody Allen on the screenplays of Sleeper, Annie Hall and Manhattan, and it has many of the funny, arch touches of Allen's best pictures. The early scenes, particularly, in which a motley group of patients pass through Moore's office, are hilarious, knowing satire at its best. But the script ravels, wandering into contrivance and predictability. Moore gives a subtle, warm, finely tuned performance, however, and Elizabeth...