Word: limbered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pepe has stretched great drips and webs of crocheted yarn across the room. From what I gather, crochet is the medium of the moment; see, for example, the work of Seong Chun. Pepe also plays with casting shadows, created by found-object mini-sculptures, across her childlike drawings. A limber, nimble exhibition...
...than what he would be doing tomorrow. Sometime in the morning, probably just before noon, the commander would lock his remote-control guidance system onto an unmanned Progress cargo ship hovering far away and bring it into the station for a docking. For a commander like Tsibliyev, steering a limber little ship like Progress toward a big whale of a target like Mir should not have been cause for worry, and ordinarily he would have been looking forward to the exercise. But tomorrow things would not be so ordinary...
...pain from the sting subsided, the ache from the arthritis in that knee began to diminish as well. A few weeks later, the swelling in all of Oliver's joints was gone. A short while after that, the chronic body-wide pain vanished too. Oliver is now a limber 86 years old. He hasn't been bothered by arthritis for 22 years...
...Before Yes, Madam," she says, "I didn't know any form of martial arts. But because I'd been dancing since I was four, I was active and limber. I also had a quick mind to pick up steps and stunts. I'd look and I'd copy." Putting her dance techniques in the service of movie surrealism, she executed entrechats so they'd puncture a bad guy's windpipe; in her plies, the knee went thwok! in a man's most vulnerable spot. "My stunt coordinators constantly tell me not to kick so high," she says...
...either The Catcher in the Rye of the '80s or the Trout Fishing in America of the '80s, depending on your estimation (I would come down somewhere in between). His subsequent books didn't stray far from the urban high life, but with his fifth novel McInerney aims to limber up and take on something more ambitious...