Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although aimed at the art of black dance, the company will be open to all Radcliffe women, they said...
Last week, almost exactly two thousand years later, the temple so built stood beneath a gleaming, towering, glassy pavilion newly erected at the north end of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art overlooking Central Park. Dendur's ancient stones glow softly orange as it stands on a wide granite platform skirted by a moat of lapping water, designed to evoke its old site on the west bank of the Nile. Even the rocky escarpment against which it stood has been simulated. The huge skylight and glass north wall set off its looming 26-ft.-high gateway and the squat bulk...
Then came the kingdom of Kush, which lasted 1,200 years. Storming out of Nubia's heartland, its kings conquered Egypt, reigning there for nearly 100 years until the Assyrians ejected them. Under the Kushites, Nubian art and culture reached a peak of skill and individuality. Though obviously influenced by Egypt, they were no more so, say their champions, than the Roman by the Greek...
Jerry Brown, Governor of California, likening the art of governing to paddling a canoe: "You lean a little to the left and then a little to the right in order to always move straight ahead...
...event's first day was devoted to the stylized art of dressage, in which the rider, using reins and pressure from his legs, guides his horse through intricate maneuvers ("Serpentine three loops, the first and the third at canter, the second counter-canter ..."). Davidson kept Might Tango under control: "I had to hold him back and keep him from exploding." And although the young horse lacked "precision," as the experts say, he still did well enough to finish eleventh...