Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been done better." In reviewing nonfiction written by a specialist. Potter advises: "If all else fails [find] at least two arguably misplaced punctuation marks, then say . . . 'If, as we hope, there is to be a second edition, certain small errors and inconsistencies can be put right.'" Novels pose a knottier problem: "[It] may even entail actual reading of the first and last chapters...
...strange appearance with a tiny 5 ft., 5 in. first baseman, Dick Shigekane. He makes up for his height with his bat, however, leading the team with a .423 mark. John Anderluh, the third baseman, and Dick Meade, the shortstop, one-two in League batting last year, also pose a strong threat...
...first rains of the monsoon showered down upon Saigon (pop. 2,000,000), cooling the weather but not the city's jittery nerves. There were quiet Buddhist ceremonies in Chinese pagodas, a pink and white wedding at the cathedral, and an outward pose of calm. But heavily armed gangsters and cops of the Binh Xuyen sect, in their arsenic-green berets, patrolled the boulevards, ordering traffic, and blockading the city's approaches so that they could control the price and supply of rice. Steel-helmeted nationalist paratroopers of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem were also out on patrol...
...Gogh's recorded reactions to Milliet were gentler. He found Milliet a restless model, complained in one letter that "if he would only pose better, he would please me very much and we would have a much better portrait than the one I am doing now. The subject is good, with his flat, pale face and his red cap against an emerald-green background...
...reality into Rough Winds of May. To the world at large, he is J. K., England's greatest painter. To the Kerr household, he is Fatuncle, a lifelong, irresponsible nuisance who only comes around to cadge money and food. When his 16-year-old niece Celia goes to pose for him, she meets a double man who divides and finally conquers her loyalties. On one of his Olympian binges, or gnawing a chicken wing, he seems like another Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. But behind the regal belch hides the lonely and fiercely honest old artist. He mercilessly paints...