Word: pose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portrait of his friend, Monsignor James Turner, however, that Eakins brought his fullest powers. From the thoughtful, chin-in-hand pose and the bookish sophistication of the pincenez to the compassion, intelligence and ever-so-subtle weakness spelled in the cleric's features, Eakins crystallized the peculiar humanity of the dedicated priest -and vindicated his own lonely, stubborn loyalty to life...
...circumvent the ban on cars. The tractors are used to cart tourists up the steep hill from the harbor-at a price. In addition, ugly rumors came to the Dame's attention that some tractors occasionally exceed Sark's 10-m.p.h. speed limit. Sark's pubs pose another problem. Though the drinking hours (8 a.m. to 11 p.m.) compare favorably to those in Britain, residents often carry on past closing time-and some of those residents are members of the parliament. "I feel it becomes unbearable," Dame Sibyl said, "when the very laws that are made...
...with my comrades," he says, "and talking revolution, jeez, I'll hit it pretty good." Forever the superpatriot, he once refused to let a bandleader play his favorite tune because "everybody would've had to stand up." Yet beyond the self-parody, beyond the fifth-face-at-Mount-Rushmore pose, there is a heroic essence that Wayne manages to convey. Today, like "war," the word "hero" is usually preceded by a disinfectant: "anti." Not to the Duke. Conflict is made to be won; heroes are created to be the uncommon man sans imperfection. "I stay away from nuances," he says...
...roles. There she was, the stage-struck young beauty in 1933's Morning Glory, the prim but game Rosie in 1951's African Queen, the indomitable Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1968's The Lion in Winter. Yet nothing could capture the essential Hepburn better than her pose in the 1939 Broadway production of The Philadelphia Story, as cool and serenely regal in slacks and blouse as Botticelli's Venus...
...scientists expect to produce a new all-purpose bug killer. Instead they are emphasizing more subtle and selective methods of pest control-among them, the breeding of new insect-resistant crops, trapping pests with light and sound, and eliminating insects through sterilization. None of these methods pose anything like the dangers of DDT. The problem is that neither do they promise anything like its effectiveness...