Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...butterfly image becomes three-dimensional in the final 13 plates as the women struggle to overcome the constraints of a male-dominated society. Virginia Woolf and O'Keefe, for example, the last two women at the table, strive to lift themselves off their plates, yet, as Chicago notes. "All women represented are still contained within their place setting." Women must continue to struggle, she believes, to create, someday, an equalized world, in which women's achievements as well as men's will "shape the world's destiny...
...coach, Lennart Bergelin, undertook to massage away her chronic case of tennis elbow. "Borg calls him Dr. Black-and-Blue, and now I know why," says Phillips. "After the massage, my arm swelled up and turned a rainbow of colors. But three days later I was able to lift my arm over my head without pain for the first time in a year." And her hands to the typewriter, for a pleasing and unique look at the incredible tennis machine...
Meet faultless Bjorn Borg. Is he, at 24, the best player ever to lift a racquet...
...contest of wills comparable only to that between two prizefighters or a pitcher and a hitter. For all its elaborate etiquette, its hushed crowds and blazered officials, its serene and verdant settings, tennis is hand-to-hand combat. It is the sizzling serve that leaves an opponent unable to lift the racquet, the passing shot that crushes the spirit, the drop shot or lob that bounces and dies far beyond reach. In the closing games
...none of the usual Bolshoi Ballet stars, no Plisetskayas or Vasilyevs, no familiar figures at all. In fact, although the dancers showed flashes of the rigorous technique and expressive line that mark the Bolshoi style, there was here and there an unaccustomed slip, a slack fouetté, a leaden lift. What, then, accounted for the electric atmosphere in the theater? Why was the audience applauding so encouragingly, pointing out dancers and scribbling notes in programs...