Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they also--particularly the dancers and the bathers--gave him leeway to play fast and loose with neo-classical conservatism. He tested the capacity of elegant design to withstand challenging poses. With the dancers, Degas takes on very difficult ballet postures and flirts wtih disequilibrium. With the bathers--and some of the horses--he plays the voyeur, catching his subjects in ungainly and at times vulgar contortions. Yet throughout his eye for "arabesque" (a term borrowed from dance, meaning "overall pattern of line") prevails, and his statuettes withstand his often perverse challenges. It is as if Degas wanted to tease...
Bains noted that the past years have seen a lack of student input, and that Food Services is likely to do little to initaite change. Change, according to Weissbecker, can be most effectively accomplished at the House level by individual managers, who have considerable leeway in decision-making within their particular facilities...
...Fils" and "Mode for Dulcimer," offer more in terms of improvisational beauty. This album is saxophone heavy which is good news for Gary Bartz fans. Bartz gives a performance on this album the likes we haven't heard since "Hiome." Tyner gives a newcomer, Joe Ford, a lot of leeway in his flute solos, which could be the record's sole weakness...
...Beta Kappa journalism graduate of the University of Minnesota (other Minnesota alumni in journalism: Eric Sevareid and Harrison Salisbury) won several Twin Cities awards for crime reporting and human-interest stories, and for a decade covered a broad sweep of the upper Midwest, from Wisconsin to South Dakota. Given leeway by the Tribune, Magnuson wandered over his territory, reporting spot news and old frontier tales alike from Tuesday to Friday and protecting his favorites on Saturday, when he took over as night city editor. One favorite, says the soft-spoken Magnuson, "came out of Deadwood, S. Dak., where Wild Bill...
...court now complained that under such narrow laws all those convicted of a given crime became "members of a faceless, undifferentiated mass to be subjected to the blind infliction of the death penalty." The new ruling rejected that approach in favor of leaving leeway for juries and judges to choose within limits when death is or is not a proper punishment. Such laws, said the court, should indicate the sort of aggravating or mitigating circumstances to be taken into account before sentencing-with rigorous appellate review if death is imposed...