Word: lifting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...these artistic tropes have quickly grown familiar and inadequate. A new play like Jonathan Bell's Portraits, composed of monologues by fictional people touched by 9/11 in various ways (including another philandering husband), already feels dated. So post-9/11 plays are moving on, trying to lift the event into a new realm, transforming it with allegory and metaphysics. But in grasping at grandiosity, the newest generation of post-9/11 plays is losing a grip on any feeling for the concrete, recognizable ways that real human beings reacted to the tragedy...
This is a tricky business. The articles explore ways to straighten or subtly change the width of an African-American patient's nose while still allowing for a slight flaring of the nostrils. They explain how Asian eyes, which tend to lift slightly higher in the corner than do Caucasian eyes, often look tired or old beyond their years when that corner drops down with time. These patients want to look younger, but they aren't interested in having their ethnicity erased with a standard eye lift...
...totally bollix the Democrats by delaying, or scrapping, his tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. He would give an Oval Office speech, profess his continuing belief in the mystical power of tax cuts--but cite the national emergency in Iraq and the jobless recovery at home. He might even lift General Clark's deft gambit (which Clark lifted from John Edwards): a $40 billion jobs program disguised as a homeland-security program that would include reinforcing bridges and tunnels against terrorist attack and enlarging the Coast Guard and Customs services. "If Bush did something like that," said a Democratic campaign...
...began half-speed to be sure everyone had the technique. The tackler would jog toward her partner, wrap up her legs, lift her off the ground and carry her a few steps...
...library’s collections will be moved to subterranean stacks in order to make way for a new student center, while a major face lift of the 1927 structure’s exterior is designed to restore and enhance Baker’s original splendor...