Word: curls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simone wants is to curl up in her plush Paris flat, keeping her children happy and her cupboards full until war's end. When a chance encounter throws Whitman into her lap for safekeeping, Signoret registers magnificent dismay. "I'm not his mother," she objects. Grace à Dieu...
...curiosity with great, amazing leaps that lead him nowhere; in his dance with the Siren, he makes twins of terror and desire. Betrayed by his lust, he struggles home, and in a slow, gentle movement that is a touching confession of sin and folly, he lifts himself into the curl of his father's arms...
Some of the other exercises had names that were closer to the original Sanskrit. "The Fish" is done by lying on your back, with only the head and lower body touching the floor and the back sharply arched. "The Cobra" is a slow curl starting from a face-down, lying position, so that you end by looking at the ceiling. Both are done to stretch the neck and back muscles...
Couelle's abodes are influenced by flora as well as fauna, as, for instance, his staircases. "Like plants-they curl," explains Couelle. "It is a law of nature. Stairs must curl, and they must not be shaped regularly. They must have irregularities so you shift your weight. You can run up and down my staircases all day without tiring...
...immerse themselves in the dense jargon of the in group. To all, "baggies" are the loose-legged boxer swim trunks worn by the boys. "Hot dogging" is either class-A surfing or show-off stuff. To "take gas" or "wipe out" is to lose a board in the curl of a wave and land in the foamy "soup...