Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Every runner sooner or later is likely to suffer from a sprained or twisted ankle, knee inflammation, stress fracture of the leg bone, shin splints, hamstring pulls, low-back pain, heel pain or blood blister of the toes. Says Berson: "Our ancestors evolved by running barefoot across a grassy plain to escape saber-toothed tigers. The human leg is not designed for running long distances on cement...
...does this Mr. Connally think he is? His vituperation and bile are, I believe, unsurpassed by those of anyone else on your staff--Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney indeed!!! I thought the new paper was a wonderful effort, and that Mr. Connoly's obviously envious criticisms were just plain mean. How would Mr. Connally like it if Punch Sulzberger was to write in The N.Y. Times about how shoddy and leftist a newspaper The Crimson is? Claude Englehardt...
...Evergreen, Plain...
...Eyes of Laura Mars is simply another in a long line of hyped-up fiascos. The picture starts nowhere and goes nowhere, the story is plain dumb and the acting is pathetically poor. The director seems to have hastily thrown together some pretty bad bits and pieces and tried to pass it off as a whole motion picture...
...show abounds in deliberately "poetic" photographs, over which surrealism?which, one is I reminded, Susan Sontag claims to be the natural mode of photographic vision?presides. Some are deliberately manipulated montages, like Jerry N. Uelsmann's dream pictures. Others are plain sights deliberately set up, like Ralph Gibson's The Enchanted Hand, 1969?a delicately ectoplastic fantasy, very much in the spirit of Joseph Cornell. Some photographs are manifestly the product of chance, an incongruous moment caught in flight. The most startling of these is Mark Cohen's Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 1975, which shows a girl's head almost...