Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music relaxes to a jazzy trumpet solo, two dancers stretch and connect their limbs on the floor. It is an exercise in absolute body control. Soon a flirtations woman appears pursued by two suitors. A mime progresses, parodying his coquettish affair. But at all times the dance if self remains of primary emphasis: ne's attention is drawn first to the breathtaking technique, then to the drama...
...Only Connect" was Forster's epigraph for Howards End, a plea to unite civilized ponds with subterranean wells of feeling. Unfortunately, he had no exact idea until age 30 of how men and women made love, a defect that Author Katherine Mansfield tartly noted in Howards End: "I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella...
...ready for use: the instructions. Many VCR manuals read as if written in a difficult foreign language. Printed in Japan, where most of the VCRS sold in the U.S. are manufactured, and replete with technical jargon, these booklets often contain such impenetrable prose as the following: "Never connect the output of the [recorder] to an antenna or make simultaneous (parallel) antenna and [recorder] connections at the antenna terminals of your receiver...
...senior forward notched 14 first-half points, but after Harvard adjusted its defense to shadow him more closely in the second, he couldn't connect for another point...
...visitors drove to the Yale two, but on fourth and goal. Princeton's usually dynamic duo of quarterback Doug Butler and wide receiver Derek Graham failed to connect for the touchdown...