Word: heighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pterosaurs-or pterodactyls, as they are often called-lived at the height of the age of dinosaurs. Equipped with batlike, leathery wings, long, powerful necks and pelican-like jaws, they soared across the skies for millions of years until their mysterious extinction about 60 million years ago. Although many different types of pterosaurs have been found in North America, Lawson's monster is apparently a new species; its wing spread is twice as large as that of any previously discovered flying reptile...
...play is supposed to open on a spiral gallery to give (according to Artaud) the illusion of depth and height create a rhythm of shadows that herald us into a mystical worlds, and destroy all sense of perspective. It is doubtful if any construction could fulfill all these expectations, but the side balcony used here only makes the seen hard...
...resisting such facile conclusions or categorizations. When he entered Harvard Law School in 1948, he directed the registrar not to inform him of his grades, so as to "demote their importance." He is so adept at demoting the importance of such figures that he does not know his height, cannot recall when he began growing his moustache, and has trouble remembering his birthday...
...also had trouble practicing on the beam [at Hemenway] because it rattles and we can't adjust it to practice the difficult moves at a lower height," Malkia added...
Almost every grandiose historical painting, up until the mid-19th century, had in it at least one charging horse--in what was supposed to be the height of its movement: flying in midair with its legs splayed out in front and behind. Then, with the invention of photography and a series of action photographs made by a man named Edward Muybridge, artists and everyone else learned that a horse's legs never did that. Photography ever since has been a major influence on how people and animals are depicted as moving in art, and a new exhibit at the Musuem...