Word: hopscotches
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...going one at the time, adding to each a fast-growing repertory of stock techniques: the placement of the curious (whether an object, texture or color) next to the ordinary, the abrupt disordering of space, an almost mannerist play of light. He jumped like a child at hopscotch from Fauvism to cubism to Dadaism to sur realism, but it was Dada that shaped him most. He was one of the few American members of the original school, and for him it never really died: his determined disrespect for the materials of art and deep attention to the ideas that...
...fact then the argument comes to this: do not challenge our assumptions about man's destiny, his intellect, or what was formerly called his "free will." Further, do not quibble with our displays of linguistic hopscotch. Finally, permit us to pursue any researches we may find attractive since some of them might perhaps possibly lead to something. In short, if you will just agree with us to begin with, we might be able, using our experimental results and our vocabulary, to persuade you to agree with us, provided you ask no questions...
...concealed in the neckline of her dress. The ballet's best dancing parts were reserved for Pluto (Keith Rosson) and Mercury (Alexander Grant). Dancer Grant appeared nearly naked wearing white briefs and a rigid, long-bobbed gold wig and performed some extraordinary contortions, including a sort of sideways hopscotch interrupted by seconds of statuesque immobility on one foot...
West Indian Folk Songs for Children (Lord Invader; Folkways). Merrily We Roll Along, Ring a Ring a Rosie and other favorites of the hopscotch set tilted to the unaccustomed rhythms of a Kingston street band. The performances are uniformly expert, the moods just exotically enough flavored to strike new echoes off a child's mind...
Then he finds out the family has a packet, which is just what he needs to put a new show on the road-he's flopped so often the commercial managers won't give him beans for hopscotch. So he offers the poor silly girl a theoretical part in a hypothetical show and, taking no chances on her old man, offers her a walk in church besides. Never mind he's twice her age. Never mind poor Phoebe (Brenda de Banzie), the old bag he's been married to for 20 years...