Word: bente
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Figures carrying each other appear repeatedly. A large drawing entitled simply "Climbing Figures" shows one man hauling another up a vertical ladder. The bottom figure is bent nearly double. The top one, heavier, also leans forward, bracing his arms on the other's shoulders. The steepness of the ladder intensifies the impression of strain...
...classical grace of his women on the right of "Two Figures Happening" all the more remarkable. The figure on the left displays typically massive thighs and a heavy torso inclined forward. The right-hand figure is powerful but much lighter. She twists toward her companion and her left arm, bent at the elbow, is thrown across her face. There is grace but not freedom. Both figures really seem to be "happening," to be struggling free of the surrounding darkness. Even in a classical motif Lebrun preserves the heaving of his visceral world...
Money & Maneuverability. An even greater worry is raising growth capital. Though credit is easier than usual these days, small businessmen have to pay interest rates up to 20% for it, and many are crusty independents who object to yielding some control of their operations to lenders bent on protecting their investments. Big companies get much of their capital from depreciation and retained earnings, but Chairman Herbert Woodward of Chicago's hose-and duct-making DK Manufacturing Co. notes that if a small business has a good year, "you tie up so much money in inventory and accounts receivable that...
...woods beside his twelve-year-old brother, the cold war did not exist. He was aware only of the grass tickling his legs, the fun-crunch of dry leaves, the scent of pine needles, the zigzag flight of a butterfly. Suddenly, during an unguarded moment, Peter dashed off, bent on exploration and discovery. By the time his brother noticed and began searching for him, the tiny tot was beyond recall, happily lost in the thickets and forest leading to the death strip...
...only the flash. The sound waves traveling along the surface had been muffled by the dense lower air. Yet 200 miles to the north, four microphones caught the roar of the explosion after it caromed back to earth-in much the same way that the cannons' roar was bent at Victoria's funeral...