Word: limb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word, polishing gestures and blocking to the point of stylization. Invention tops invention, and the tempo never falters; the quieter numbers seem to roll gracefully out of the frenetic moments, picking up speed and then tossing us back into the razzle-dazzle. Ragsdale choreographs persons and not feet; every limb has its moment in the spotlight, bobbing bodies trade steps from one corner of the stage to another--and when all that fascinating business converges into a single group motion, the effect is exhilarating. The chorus slides into the dancing with an ease and assurance that makes it seem like...
...Loretta Schwartz's articles for Philadelphia have won her a wailful of journalism awards-and an annual income of less than $7,500. Says Catherine Breslin, a now successful New York City writer who made $800 in 1975: "A freelancer lives at the end of a sawed-off limb...
...Murphy is the most vocal bull in the auto industry, and he is out on a lengthening limb. While other auto chiefs forecast that Americans this year will buy about 11 million cars, slightly below last year's near record. Murphy takes all those reports on his desk, puts them through his own mental calculator, adds some instincts that come from his 40 years in the nation's most important industry, and tells one and all that the figure will approach 11,750,000. Sales were set back by the worst winter he has ever seen...
...James I. Ausman, head of the University of Minnesota team that reported on its bypass studies at a recent stroke conference in New Orleans, there are six danger signals that may precede a major stroke: passing episodes, lasting from minutes to several hours, of 1) numbness in a limb or the face; 2) weakness or drooping on one side of the body; 3) speech difficulties; 4) blurring of vision, usually in one eye; 5) dizziness and double vision; or 6) severe headache and a stiff neck. Anyone who experiences such "little strokes" should visit a physician promptly. Many of these...
Carter is indeed out on a limb. The fact is the canal has a constituency and the treaty has no constituency," says Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who along with Sol Linowitz negotiated the accord. By one nose count, only 35 Senators now favor the treaty, 22 are opposed and 43 are undecided-far short of the two-thirds vote needed for approval. But the undecided count may be deceptive. A vote on the treaty is not likely to occur until early next year and, as one Republican Senator asks, "Why shouldI make my position known now? I'd just...