Word: paired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moore himself admits that he is trying out some new approaches, but denies any fundamental change of style. Discussing his helmeted king and his queen, a spatulate pair sitting in a sort of bleak majesty on a bench, he insists that the shapes of his figures are mostly determined by choice of material. Says he: "In bronze you start with space. In stone you start with a hunk of something, and work down ... In the King and Queen, I was trying to give the impression of a helmeted. almost masked head. The king's head contrasts with the body...
...girl wearing the forest green of the Girl Scouts completed the family group. Scattered through the sparse audience one could see whole clusters of Decent Citizens. The balcony, if nearly empty, had a more familiar look. A few soldiers on leave, four or five black-jacketed motorcyclists, and a pair of youths in red blazers lettered "M-I-T" looked down from the lower horseshoe...
...Elis will go to New York with a pair of huge weight throwers; two excellent pole vaulters; and a host of strong middle distance men. If all of these men can score the points Coach Bob Gigengack thinks they should, the Blue swimming team's winning streak will have to be subordinated...
...neat alliance of sexual and mercenary cupidities. But for all Author Scott's efforts, neither Cathy nor Alastair strikes the reader as being highly qualified in their respective fields. This is because, like the characters in so many other well-bred British novels, they are nothing but a pair of author's notions dressed in well-cut suits of prose. Asked to play the role of human beasts, they answer, quite rightly, that they were never destined to be anything more than their tailor's dummies...
Directions: items 39 through 54 appear in pairs. The first of each pair relates a person to one of the countries pinpointed on the map. For these items write on the answer sheet the number of the country correctly locating the person described. 39. The eldest of this absolute monarch's 40 sons succeeded him here...