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...opening work on the program, unfolded a beautifully organic pattern on the motif of the softly curving arc. Dancers tumbled their arms like water-wheels in the fall of the current, or turned on one leg, the others bent at right angles the way a feather spirals in a funnel of air. All the edges here had been washed smooth, and the rhythmic impulse, as in a dream, was the time of the sea-drift, rippling the dancers' bodies like wind on water. Meg Streeter's "Waves Blown Back" was less articulate, though still structured with thematic clarity. Streeter...
...agreement. Only five hours later, as Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau stood by smiling, President Carter announced that Canada and the U.S. had decided to build a trans-Canadian pipeline that will carry natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to the Lower 48-and later may also funnel gas south from Canada's partly developed deposits in the Mackenzie Bay delta...
...force officers have conceded that the Luftwaffe was responsible for Guernica; they have also insisted that the raid was a monumental error, caused by bad visibility and inexperience. The real target, they have claimed, was a tiny, 60-ft. stone-and-steel bridge over the narrow Mundaca River, a funnel for retreating Basque troops. But why incendiaries against a stone bridge? And why so massive a raid against so small a target? The Renteria Bridge, in any case, was never touched. Nor were the sacred oak and the adjoining Casa de Juntas (assembly hall) of the Basques, nor an important...
Harvard coach George Ford had his team funnel the ball to "distributor" Lee Nelson in the middle of the field, where he had the option of holding the ball or playing it wide to one of the forwards...
...Similarly, she does not preoccupy herself with what an outsider may think of a welfare mother who does not even attempt to work; she has learned that the Department of Social Services taxes welfare recipients' outside earnings 100 per cent, so declines to serve as a cash funnel. Besides, where would she leave her children? Who would make sure they went to school (which she can hardly be sure of herself...