Word: poses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, starting when she was 18, and then at various milestones and crises in her life from her marriage through her pregnancy and divorce. On his painting of women-seamstresses, ballet dancers, actresses, and nudes-he lavishes all his tenderness. In such a painting as Young Girl, subtlety of pose, the position of only a hand, can express as much emotion as the expression on the face...
...offensive power of St. Nick's will pose a serious threat to the Crimson. The club has scored 30 goals in their first four contests, including an over-whelming 16-1 defeat of the Potomac Hockey Club...
...Soviet Union has either the authority or the will to restrain the Chinese Communists. Nehru's policy of nonalignment, which was intended to free India from any concern with the cold war between the West and Communism, was ending in disaster. Nearly shattered was the morally arrogant pose from which he had endlessly lectured the West on the need for peaceful coexistence with Communism. Above all. the Indian people, fiercely proud of their nationhood, have been deeply humiliated and shaken by the hated Chinese...
Fatal Excess. Just before the voting, De Gaulle abandoned his favorite pose of being above party politics. In a powerful pre-election speech on nationwide TV and radio, he urged France to vote against the old-line parties and support his candidates, who were guardians all of "the good of the state, the fate of the Republic, the future of France." The most damaging blow to old-line parties was struck by one of their most respected leaders. Socialist Mollet. An implacable antiCommunist, he is one of the chief targets of France's Reds, who call him a "social...
...pistol lying on a table near by, and Wellington went for his sword. "Fortunately the two great men were separated before they could do greater harm than to express their opinions of each other," wrote Mrs. Havemeyer. "Goya would never change the portrait nor allow Wellington any longer to pose for him." The artist had finished Wellington's face, and he painted the rest of the picture from a hired model...