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...CHURCHILL CANVAS, by John Spencer Churchill (308 pp.; Little, Brown; $5.75). Uncle could ape a gorilla as well as any man who ever lived. "Grr, grr," he would roar, and then crouch in the branches of an oak, "baring his teeth and pounding his chest with his fists." At the beach, Uncle was always the engineer who mobilized the children to build a fortress of sand against the rising tide: "More sand for the outer defenses! Stop the moat from flooding! Hurry!" Uncle also happened to be Winston Churchill, and upon this familial foundation John Spencer Churchill-a painter specializing...
Down the long sweep of the Grand Canal came the gondola, a slender vessel reminiscent of older, statelier times. But there was something that looked like a propeller shaft projecting from the craft's bottom; the gondolier had abandoned his classic, nonchalant stand at the stern to crouch at the center; and the boat emitted wild gusts of fumes and roars that shook the lagoon city into outrage...
...Curious Crouch. Hunched into his curious, knock-kneed crouch, holding his thick-handled bat like a broomstick (with his hands six inches apart), Cobb was a remarkably versatile hitter. He could bunt, hit line drives or ground balls, place his hits almost at will. Never noted as a longball hitter, he nevertheless led the American League in home runs in 1909 (with nine), once hit five in two consecutive games-a mark Babe Ruth never matched. Asked to compare Cobb and Ruth, Cleveland Outfielder Tris Speaker once said: "Babe was a great ballplayer, but Cobb was even greater. Ruth could...
...tree. It is then that Eve (Sally Bailey) emerges from underneath him. For Choreographer Christensen, the biggest problem was the birth of Eve. "I sat at my desk for days, thinking-how do I do that? Drew pictures, and all that. As it turned out. Eve has to crouch in the hollow of that tree from the beginning of the ballet until it's time for her to slip from Adam's rib." As danced by San Francisco's exuberant, youthful bantam ballet company, Original Sin is emotional as well as entertaining...
...dozen women of indeterminate age clad in blue overalls and white skullcaps, are darning trousers that belong to 1,500 anonymous spouses . . . There are 23 'factories' in this particular commune, each one employing from 100 to 700 women workers. The workers, many of them older women, crouch on their heels, blow on their stiff fingers, and try their clumsy best to keep their output up to the norm...