Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muscular Giant. The American-Western merger was negotiated last fall by Spater and Kirk Kerkorian, the Western board chairman, more on the grounds of convenience than necessity or public interest. Spater contended, however, that the merger would generate $50 million in new annual profits-$22 million in increased revenues and $28 million in cost savings. Yet some CAB economists predict a $20 million burden of cost increases on the merged carrier...
...First, however, the patient is reassured: "You are not mentally ill, and there is no danger of your going insane." Then he is questioned about the situations that trigger his anxiety, and the triggers are ranked according to intensity. After the sufferer has been taught to relax completely-through muscular exercises -he is asked to imagine the least frightening trigger: in a person who fears death, it may be the sight of an ambulance. If he becomes frightened, he is told to let go physically, so that relaxation can in effect replace fear. If he remains unafraid, he is asked...
...dormant for 500 years and revived only when the figure was brought up from underground. It is an obvious and not especially felicitous metaphor for Karin herself. When the lovers finally part and Karin desperately pursues David to London, she meets his sister, a cripple suffering from an unnamed muscular paralysis, which she claims to share with her brother. Karin reacts to this as if it were a kind of sign (as indeed it is), and returns to Sweden to have her baby. She is not sure whether the father is David or her own husband. Nor is she sure...
...many thousand canvases produced in the last 20 years have echoed the muscular writhing of brush marks, the suffusing, arbitrary color and the dense, pasty, almost edible pigment that Monet, in 1918, incorporated into The Willow? In a study of African lilies growing beside his pond, the "modernity" of Monet's vision becomes even more pronounced. There is no horizon line; the fragment of reality he chose tips and squashes itself against the picture plane. A whole historical style is predicted in the vibration and flicker of yellow light on the water, the excited scribbles round the lily pads...
Dave "learned how to underline books on the swaying subway, a feat of muscular discipline which involved bracing your legs against the floor, pushing hard against the seatback and tucking your elbows in close to your body. The underlining was a little wobbly, but it traced the wavering path of Dave's radical education." Roy is interviewed at Brandeis by its director of admissions, who, "a teacher of Irish literature on the side.... found Roy 'gentle as a chrysanthemum, smiling as a sunflower.'" Sue, in assuming her mother's role in caring for her Southern family, overcomes her fear...