Word: crouching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong midday sun. Its rays can heat-and slow-the surface of the ice and cost racers precious hundredths of a second. Victory literally can hang on a passing cloud. It also depends on technique. Speed is generated by the piston power of the leg; the deeper the racing crouch the greater distance the piston can extend. Arms play no part, except on the turns, when racers swing them metronomically to develop what they call "the slingshot" effect. Skates are a streamlined amalgam of 16-in. blades and ankle-high boots of soft kangaroo leather...
Although cast in the genre's typically repetitive structure, "Format VI," one of Brenda Way's two works, ironically undercuts the idea of mathematical/conceptual/schematized dance. Six dancers begin standing in formation upstage. Walking forward as a line, they crouch nearer and nearer to the floor until lying belly-down. Pusing themselves backwards to standing, the group returns to its first formation. After several rounds slight irregularities in the pattern crop up: one dancer fixes her hair, another brushes something off her leg, yet another glances quickly at the ceiling. Several rounds later members of the collective blurt out word associations...
...second concern involves the obscure area of the quarterback-center exchange. Quarterback Jim Kubacki, you see, stands at 6'3", which is five more than center Carl Culig. Thus, "Jimmy has to crouch down to get the ball, which is a real disadvantage" according to Restic...
...flying angel) has been riding professionally for 15 of his 32 years. The 5-ft. 3-in., 113-lb. jock, a bubbling personality who often sings while riding to the post, is a quiet artist at the reins. Along with a "good-looking seat"-he rides in a tight crouch with his back parallel to the horse's body-Cordero has one of the most effective whip techniques in the business. By switching his whip from hand to hand in heavy traffic without missing a beat, he can often shift a horse into overdrive...
...familiar ritual: he knocks his stick on his skates, moves a few feet up ice to the edge of the "goal crease," reaches back to tap the top of his stick and the end of his glove against the steel goalposts to get his bearings, drops to a crouch, and challenges the shooter to make the first move. He also flips to the right page in his mental book on players and recalls data on their habitual skating patterns. In the second or two that all this is going on, Parent begins to adjust his position to cut down...