Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confined to bed for eight months while recovering from an unexpected scoliosis operation. Immobilized by a neck-to-hip cast, she studied at home with tutors provided by the school system in her area. Isolated from the group experiences of the classroom and the schoolyard, she thrived on the one-to-one tutorials and sped through her assignments...
...American landscape (bare birches, patches of snow, brown stubble, rocks and iced-up puddles, all under a white sky) looks so like Siberia. To gauge how the roots of his imagination go, one need only compare his painting of the nude Helga with a black ribbon round her neck, face averted, floating in a soup of dark shadow, with the work on which it is based: Manet's Olympia. There, one has all the contrast between what is deep and what is genteel, between brazen, ironic intelligence and mere sensibility, between the harsh confrontational skills of a great talent...
...snatched it myself, by the neck, like a chicken...
While many people are into U2 for "deep and meaningful" reasons, most of us just love the sound and the words. Frankly, I am tired of incomprehensible lyrics that end with "oooh, baby." U2 does not insult our intelligence. The band's music makes the hair on my neck stand up and my brain work. That is the best of both worlds, wouldn...
...never hired a dancer who did not appeal to "something warm" inside him. But there are frosty spots: Bettie de Jong ("picture a lovely reed dancing") is closest to him, but at times his feelings for her "are like a furry noose which slowly tightens around my neck." He admires the young Twyla Tharp's "magnificent" ambition, but simmers when she disparages his work to London critics. With what must be unprecedented honesty he says he gave Dan Wagoner little solos in Aureole to keep him interested without handing him a fat part. Wagoner, Tharp, Senta Driver and Laura Dean...