Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duel scene, is easily the best, and the Joffrey performs it with sweep and charging bravura. Elsewhere there are difficulties, some of which should disappear as the company settles into the work. Right now the dancers have absurd ideas of rich life in the Renaissance. The men strut and pose, the ladies arch their backs so radically that they look poised for a back flip. An exception is Gerel Hilding, whose Tybalt has genuine authority. Perhaps unwittingly, Stuttgart Choreologist Georgette Tsinguirides, who set the ballet on the Joffrey, made the Montagues the good guys and the Capulets the swine...
Some Wall Streeters accused Pickens of "greenmail," the business world's version of blackmail. In a greenmail deal, an investor buys a large enough chunk of a company's stock to pose a takeover threat in the hope that its management will buy the shares at a premium. Pickens denies being a greenmailer, saying that he made a sincere bid to take over Phillips and that all company shareholders will benefit from his actions because the value of their stock will rise. The most venerable greenmail victim of 1984 was Mickey Mouse. Saul Steinberg, a New York City financier, bought...
Tomorrow night, the Crimson hosts Vermont at 7:30 p.m. in an anticlimactic battle. The icemen should roll over the Catamounts, who are 1-5 going into tonight's contest at Dartmouth and appear far too weak to pose much of a challenge...
Even some advocates of capital-punishment laws are uneasy about actually imposing the penalty. Oregon voters, who abolished the death penalty by referendum in 1964, reimposed it the same way last month, but only in cases involving wanton murderers who would otherwise pose a "threat to society." The Colorado legislature this year passed a tough new capital-punishment statute co-sponsored by State Senator Ray Powers. Even so, Powers declares, "we're just not a death-penalty state like, say, Florida, and this law isn't going to make...
...pottery of ancient Greece to the murals of Picasso. Along the way he stops to consider almost every major artist; he shows how Dürer worked in woodcuts, the techniques of Holbein (seen painting the clothes of a straw model because the King is too busy to pose), the hidden Christian imagery of Goya, the palette of the impressionists, the contained violence of the fauves and cubists. Ventura augments photographs of the paintings with his own sketches of the artists at work, explains such terms as fresco and perspective and concludes with a series of brief biographies. There...