Word: egg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bonnet had two main ideas for his team: exercise and the egg. Until then, the prevailing form featured a skis-together, head-up posture. Bonnet reasoned that I'oeuf, a little used, head-down, feet-apart crouch, would give less aerodynamic drag and a lower center of gravity, thus making a skier faster and less likely to fall. The trouble was that it required fantastic strength to hold the egg for any length of time. Le coach, therefore, put les skiers through an exhaustive and exhausting daily ritual of deep knee bends with 60-lb. sacks of sand...
...third avenue of "institutional reform" consists of aiding local community action groups to unravel the complexities of the law. During the past six months, CLAO has advised a group of Boston poor organizing an egg-buying co-operative, a neighborhood rehabilitation program, and a proposed Cambridge credit union...
...enormous luminous egg hangs in the darkness. A neon light suddenly flashes...
...egg, wreathed in white neon, blazes brilliantly and then goes dark. A figure outlined in pulsing, multicolored lights appears and begins to dance. The houselights come up. The dancer walks forward. Out of the primeval egg, Adam is born...
...Good morning!" says a raw egg, lolling in a shallow dish, its yolk bearing an advertisement for a no-pressure printing technique, proving that the ovum can become a commercial. Noses nudge knowingly from a page dealing with psephology. Five pages of pebbled and scaly abstract photography resolve themselves into a closeup of human toes to make the point: "The wheel is an extension of the foot." One entire spread is printed in Leonardo-like "mirror writing," and another is set upside down just to show how absurd the whole concept of books can be. Indeed, the authors of this...