Word: dissecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three-year-old. By the time he was twelve, he was perched beside the starting gates, studying how jockeys get away on the break. After he decided to become a rider, Steve and his father collected race films, endlessly rerunning them on a borrowed projector, to dissect the strategies of dozens of jockeys. Says Steve: "I give my father credit for everything I have learned. The basic things came from him: how to get a good seat and hands, pace, how to switch the stick in one stride." While dismounted, he practiced his whip technique by flailing a bale...
...excelled in poor grades," Rauschenberg remembers. He is still an execrable speller. In the fall of 1942 he enrolled in a pharmacy course at the University of Texas in Austin, but Rauschenberg's fondness for animals spoiled that vocation. "I was expelled within six months for refusing to dissect a live frog in anatomy class." By then, however, America was at war and Rauschenberg entered the U.S. Navy. He was shunted off to the Navy hospital-corps school in San Diego as a mental-hospital nurse. Rauschenberg
...reversal: you can still pore them out of newspapers. While the accounts may come across rather authoritatively in print, they are also apt to be vague, and scratching around in reference books often provides no historical clues to these struggles. Instead of offering a sturdy explanation, the journalists unendingly dissect the latest round of titular shuffling (the latest on Teng is still going strong after six months) until someone composes a new variation on the theme of personality clashes and shifts within the hierarchy. Personality and power, after all, make good copy...
Loose ends don't really detract, though, because the film's final clinching shot throws open all doors to analysis. Hari has allowed Sartorius to dissect her, leaving only a note, and Kelvin has decided to return to Earth, he approaches his home, where the film began, and in the doorway kneels at his father's feet, head buried in his lap, one of those poignant Bergmanesque poses. The camera begins to pull up and up, above the house, the trees, the adjacent lake, until we see the entire island surrounding the house, sitting--you guessed it--in the middle...
...challenge to dissect such a theory rationally; I can hardly find grounds for discourse. Moynihan's words strike me as the thoughts of a man unable to understand a radically different philosophy who is scurrying about, cooking up an outwardly sophisticated theory that resolves any self-doubts the criticism generated. Think back to the causes of the critical "young elite" (itself a phrase intended to put the left into the heirarchical world Moynihan feels comfortable in): Did they fear the "overwhelming power" of the Vietcong (who, Moynihan incorrectly says, were a "totalitarian regime...not many years back."). Or did they...