Word: calmes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radar in unreachable corners of the court. Above all, she seemed nerveless. She did not fret about the point just past, however irritating her own error or an official's miscall, and she did not think about what would come next. She focused, with almost icy calm, on the moment and the ball. "My whole career," she recalled last week, "people have been talking about how tough I am. Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion...
Nobody could take these paintings for supergraphics. Their mood is, above all, reflective. They aspire to a rough, Doric calm. They do not move; or when they do, it is by a slow pressure of grainy abutting edges or, in a work like No Neo, 1984, by the slight bulging of stripes against their neighbors, like the entasis of a classical column. (The title means something; Scully wanted his painting to resist the sense of recycling that pervaded the '80s, neo-this and neo-that. "The art that interests me," he says flatly, "is heroic...
Passenger Moriarty said many of the travelers were on business, which he credited with the calm atmosphere. "They were thinking of their business appointments," he said. Still, passengers took comfort from each other he said...
...each other's fiancees. Alas, it proves all too easy, but after a reasonable amount of tears and outcries, everyone is reconciled at the end. Not in Sellars' version. Here they finish in an angry brawl, and according to Sellars, "the opera ends as they scream the words 'beautiful calm' against gale-force turbulence in the orchestra...
...battles erupted during a weeklong work stoppage that was authorized by the United Mine Workers. Richard Trumka, president of the U.M.W., said he ordered the shutdown in order to "calm the volatile situation." When miners return to work this week, tensions will be high. Trumka has accepted an invitation for the U.M.W. to return to the negotiating table, but Pittston has not yet commented on the proposal...