Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stravinsky, who has been writing ballets since 1909 . . . knows very well the logical anatomical basis of the Five Absolute Ballet Positions. In the Third Position (the heel of one foot locked against the instep of the other, weight equally distributed, with complete turnout), Mr. Stravinsky would have found it awkward to execute the traditional stage bow derived from the imperial Russian theater. He took it in Fourth Position (with weight equally divided, the fore foot is twelve inches in advance of the back...
Land of Tourists. By this month's end, cruise ships of Canada Steamship Lines will enter the Saguenay, their rails lined with the first of the season's 250,000 tourists, mostly from the U.S. Off the frowning, forbidding, 2,000-foot cliff of Cape Eternity, the ships will slow down. Their jazz orchestras will grind out Ave Maria and searchlights will play on a statue of the Virgin placed high on Cape Trinity by an habitant grateful for his recovery after a fall through the Saguenay's ice. Then the whistles will sound, while passengers marvel...
...anyone doubts that baseball is the favorite U.S. game, there are statistics to prove it. Last week, a Gallup poll showed that a whopping 39% of Americans enjoy watching baseball more than any other sport.- Next in line of popularity: foot ball (17%), basketball (10%), horse racing (4%), boxing...
...intricate, crowded feet (scaled roughly at a foot to a mile), the scroll follows a meandering road downriver, from dawn to dusk. In its 33-mile course, the road enters the gates of the high-walled Sung capital Pien-liang, and becomes a city street lined with pawnshops, paint shops, butcher shops, restaurants, lute shops, wineshops, needle shops, antique shops...
This week they found George Polk. His body, bound hand & foot, was found floating in the bay at Salonika. He had been shot in the back of the head...