Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Twelve. These canvas Lolitas have aroused much arch speculation, which Balthus turns aside by jokingly pointing out that he was born in a leap year, and that "having had only twelve birthdays, I may consider myself only twelve years old." Outwardly, this man of twelve is every inch the worldly aristocrat who can converse brilliantly, if somewhat distractedly, in French, Italian, German and English. He is the most painstaking of artists: he may require as many as 40 sittings for a portrait, turns out only about five new canvases a year...
...system "calls for a year of very careful planning before we leap into the bricks-and-mortar stage," President Bunting cautioned. On June 29 and 30 the College will sponsor a conference of approximately 15 anthropologists, sociologists, industrial designers, and architects to discuss plans for the living units...
...field, the Crimson's depth was the decisive factor. The team swept all four spots in the broad jump; Marty Beckwith was first with a leap of 21 ft., 10 in. and Chuck Azikiwe was six inches behind him. Tom Blodgett and Alan Albright completed the Crimson sweep...
Trained in Denmark, Bruhn leaped to fame in 1955, when he appeared in Giselle with the American Ballet Theater in a performance that Dancer-Choreographer Ted Shawn recalls as "one of the two greatest performances I've ever seen." Back home Bruhn, 32, is the idol of the Royal Danish Ballet, where he has brought new life to the classic roles reserved for a premier danseur noble. His technical credentials include a fine dramatic sense and an ability to leap with a high-arching grace, to turn with cat quickness and fluidity on the ground or in midair...
Hats were heaved aloft. Russians cheered, hugged each other, telephoned their friends. The celebration spread from factories to collective farms, from crowded city streets to clusters of huts on the lonely steppes. Newspapers blossomed with bright red headlines. Everywhere people paraded with banners hailing the Soviet leap into space. Not even for Sputnik 1 had the U.S.S.R. worked up such effervescent enthusiasm...