Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dissatisfied Ajootian is naturally looking forward to next year. "I'm getting ready for next year by working on my technique. Since I'm relatively small for this event, form is important...
...finance committee will forward the nomination to the full Senate when it has approved three other under secretaries. The committee will send only one report to the floor...
...vast collection of antique furniture. Bound For Glory is accurate but not pedantic, entertaining but not slick. Like Woody's songs, Bound For Glory is deceptively simple; the surface simplicity serves only to mask the care and skill involved in its production. Besides, as Pete Seeger said in his forward to the book, "Any damn fool can get complicated...
...wing-spread position and lock elbow out in front--down towards the ground. Her palm has opened and is ready to break her fall. Of course, the statuettes leave unsaid that this maneuver might also break all the bones in the dancer's thin wrist were she to plummet forward. But one suspects that Degas saw the possibilities...
...Caught Unawares." Here the subject stands frozen in an obviously impromptu pose, her knees buckled inwards and both hands clasped embarassedly together in front of her waist. The funniest and most clever part of this pose, though, lies in the position that Degas gives her head: instead of staring forward, her mouth agape, or the corners of her mouth turned down in a disapproving frown, the visually violated woman has twisted her head around and away from her presumed admirer. For some reason, she wants to spare herself the sight of the man who has just momentarily seen...