Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smaller and more delicate than she appears in pictures, her voice higher and more nasal than on her records. There is a solidity about her, a muscular spirituality. Her element is earth, not air. A master of silence, she does not talk about what she doesn't know. Mostly, she is wary, skeptical...
Morse said police responded to Lowell House at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday after a resident called to report that "two white males were soliciting" for Muscular Dystrophy...
Elena Carroll, the regional director of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, said yesterday that she could not say for certain whether the men were authorized to solicit for the charity...
...Thursday in 1968 that Ritter abandoned the comfortable life of a chaplain and a professor of theology at Manhattan College for the mean streets of the city's Lower East Side. Challenged by a student to practice the good works he preached, Ritter responded with a colorful act of muscular Christianity: he paid $50 to a couple of toughs to scare drug dealers into vacating their apartments. He used the space to house homeless children. Later he opened a shelter for runaways in a three-room hovel on East Seventh Street and solicited money to help the hundreds of teenagers...
...rococo artist, though this is partly hidden by his love of satire (never a rococo trait). He constructed his designs from whiplash lines and curvilinear rhythms. He was devoted to Rubens, preserving on a tiny scale the rush and tumble and fullness (if not the grand muscular articulation) of that master's paintings. British critic Sacheverell Sitwell was right to compare Rowlandson's sketch of guests floundering, bare-bottomed and head over heels, down the staircase at a "crush" at Somerset House to Rubens' Last Judgment in Munich...