Word: perched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard victory would be a mild upset, but the Crimson have an excellent shot at knocking the Big Green off their temporary perch stop the Eastern League. "On paper they're 30 points better than us." Gambril said Thursday, "but we have a chance to win every race despite their better times, so we'll just have to wait...
...thicket of verbiage protects, and supports, the most banal propositions. Recently, an artist named Jannis Kounellis showed (among other things) a live macaw, sitting on a perch that projected from a steel plate. "The parrot piece," Kounellis explained, "is a more direct demonstration of the dialectic between the structure and the rest, in other words, the nature of the parrot, do you see? The structure represents a common mentality, and then the sensuous part, the parrot, is a criticism of the structure, right?" Stripped of its jargon, this is a not very surprising revelation that parrots are not perches...
...Abstraction, Porch Shadows" (Connecticut, 1915) where the silts of light are only fully realized for their clarity and brightness in an original print like that of the MFA show; the book's print attempt cannot compare, although on the whole the quality of reproduction for this edition excels. The perch railing casts a row of dark stripes, a zebra-like image doubled by refraction onto a rounded object that protrudes from the righthand side of the picture. The distinctness of these evenly-spaced bars of dark and light anticipates the immaculate surface of hard-edge pointing...
Dick Miller, perched in the balcony, is going out of his mind, playing an imaginary guitar and dancing at the same time, emitting a more or less constant scream. He is not standing on his seat like everybody else, including the girl dancing naked to the waist on our right; he is standing up on the arms of his seat, doing a boogie and moaning, on the verge of falling. When they come to Jumpin' Jack Flash, it is too much for Miller; he is down off his perch, dancing in the aisle...
...crew settled, the Bruinr picked up three seats on the Crimson. It was here at the 500 meter mark that Harvard faced a potential disaster when sophomore Dave Fellows's "Rod Laver autographed model" tennis hat flew from its perch stop the number-seven oarsman and fell onto the slide of stroke Gene LaBarre's seat...