Word: bowes
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...without changing their music he shaped them and made them presentable for a mass audience that suckled on the television tube. No TV show in Britain (let alone America) would have embraced the leather-clad Beatles. The foppish suits and Olde World charm of that little bow at the end of each set sugar-coated the Beatles' jagged pill and made them irresistible...
Rogow, a scholarly, bow-tied law professor who has argued 11 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, said the word circus wasn't big enough to describe the show. At one point attorney Alan Dershowitz, the Zelig of American law, and another lawyer attended a hearing with Rogow, and the New York Times observed: "In a race that was not particularly close, both men beat the lead defense lawyer, Bruce S. Rogow, to the television cameras outside the courthouse...
...Governor, or first lady in my case." But the fun wasn't just limited to subject-verb mangling. More exciting still was his style. Occasionally he walked the stage hunched like a gunfighter, arms poised to pull his pistols. To punctuate a point, he'd sometimes squat and bow his arms as if he were trying to lift a water cooler. Or he'd poke the air like a man torturing an elevator button. And, boy, could he paint a wicked rhetorical picture. A particular favorite popped up at an energy-policy speech in Saginaw, Mich. Like most...
Sarah M. Hulsey '01 spends a good deal of her time at the Bow & Arrow Press, an old-fashioned letter-press workshop buried deep in what you might call the bowels of Adams House B-Entry. There, in a vaguely medieval space stuffed to the gills with drawers full of type (Helvetica, Futura, you name it), a quarter-century's worth of magnesium plates and the assembled knick-knacks of the letter-press trade, Hulsey prints books and broadsides of poetry written by her friends and roommate, Susannah Lang Hollister '01, in addition to original work. In a painstaking procedure...
...carve woodblocks and is testing out more experimental ground for her printing, eager as she always is to expand into new ideas, skills and projects. With lively enthusiasm, she talks animatedly about her latest work, an artist's book on taxidermy that she intends to print at the Bow & Arrow. Having stumbled upon this most unusual subject and gotten hooked, Hulsey isn't about to give up the infatuation any time soon...