Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Metal leg braces are all too familiar to the victims of such disorders as muscular dystrophy or polio. The double-bar braces are heavy and clumsy, with a stirrup under the instep, and they induce muscle atrophy by permitting the foot to move only up and down. In normal walking, the body's weight tends to throw the heel of each foot alternately either outward or inward, depending on the terrain, but such movement is prevented by the conventional brace...
Fortunately for its director, the youthful (average age: 22) Harkness troupe is fully up to such dramatic demands. Some of its brightest stars are Americans-Lawrence Rhodes of Detroit, who brings to Dead Boy and Time Out of Mind an overwhelming sense of racking passion under superb muscular control, and New Yorker Brunilda Ruiz, an agile, high-leaping prima ballerina. The company's foreign-born dancers, ranging in origin from Iceland to Japan, have been carefully selected for their adaptability to an "American" style. That style, explains Macdonald, is the best in the world for new ballet. "Americans...
...Hoffer, 65, comes on with a muscular humanism that hymns ordinary people and the land that enthroned them. "The only new thing in history," he says, "is America. It's blasphemous to say that, you know, but it's true." And what is America's contribution? "The deproletarianization of the working man. He ceases to be a proletarian. He thinks he's as good as everybody else." Hoffer knows he is. "You can almost close your eyes," he says, "reach over the sidewalk and make a man President, and he'll turn...
...unexpectedly, Stüssy for years has portrayed animals and men caught in a box, naked muscular forms that are sometimes bowed in resignation or despair, sometimes tensely flexed against their prison. In one series of paintings, the same rectangular form becomes the basis for a crouching, partially dissected Man Posing as an Animal, or a twisted animal in Resting Beast, or agonized Homo sapiens in Self-Wrestling. Following a visit last year to Chile, with which U.C.L.A. has a reciprocal art exchange program, Stüssy began painting women, a fact his sculptress wife, Kim, partly attributes...
...militancy is the rivalry between the 1,000,000-member National Educational Association and the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s American Federation of Teachers (membership: 142,000), which have long vied for the allegiance of the nation's teachers. Last week the two organizations seemed to be in a muscular contest to show who could be tougher in talking-or not talking-with school boards. A.F.T. locals were responsible for the power plays in New York, East St. Louis, Baltimore and Detroit; elsewhere in Michigan, where 14 school districts were closed, N.E.A. affiliates took the lead, as they...