Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comfortable financial settlement, Traube demanded a federal investigation and instead received a letter exonerating him of any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, he was unable to regain his job-or a position that he particularly wanted with JET, the inter-European nuclear power project. There the matter stood until a source every bit as mysterious as the fabled "Deep Throat" of Watergate turned over the entire Verfassungsschutz file on Traube to Der Spiegel...
...Sure, leaving like that every weekend does mess things up a bit," Desaulniers said, "but I'm not sure what I miss. I have to get the report every Sunday night when I get back...
...Grand Arabesque, First Time" seems lissome, supple, at ease. The "Grand Arabesque, Second Time" appears a bit more tense, but her leg has yet to ascend above the line of the backbone and the pose is held confidently. The culminating pose, however, the "Grand Arabesque, Third Time" (of which there are five or six variations in the exhibit) does not fare so well. The dancer has begun to lose her balance; and Degas communicates this with subtle wit by having her thrust her right arm away from the wing-spread position and lock elbow out in front--down towards...
...mouth agape, or the corners of her mouth turned down in a disapproving frown, the visually violated woman has twisted her head around and away from her presumed admirer. For some reason, she wants to spare herself the sight of the man who has just momentarily seen a bit too much of her, and this bit of cleverness saves the piece from appearing only cheaply humorous...
Sometimes Degas takes this fascination with linear tension produced by common movements a bit too far, though. In "The Bow," he leaves his subject in such a low-squatting curtsey, her right leg extended stiffly like a dancing cossack, that given one brief moment brought to life, she seems sure to capsize and fracture her coccyx...