Word: proddings
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...vaudeville" that Baryshnikov chose for his tribute to this sturdy war horse of Russian ballet. When she is in the presence of Gamache, the unwanted suitor pressed upon her by her father, her eyes roll in exaggerated disdain. She transforms her snapping fan into an épée to prod this fopling across the stage and out of her sight. Her face flares in coquettish outrage at brash Basil's proffered kisses; she singes and melts at the same time. When she is onstage with the demented man of La Mancha, the tart señorita turns spindrift. She not only...
...School cannot prod its students toward careers in public interest law. It should do a great deal more, however, to reduce pressure on students to enter more lucrative corporate practice...
...energy and the Panama Canal, Carter attempted to prod Congress toward accepting his proposals...
...aides say that the President has not abandoned these positions but is likely to defer the most controversial "reforms," presumably until after the 1978 elections. The plan for next year will probably include more modest changes in the tax code, along with tax cuts designed to boost business confidence, prod capital spending and give a timely kick to the economy in order to prevent the slowdown that many experts have predicted for the second half...
...shedding the shackles of the past, that is, industrial society, as quickly and painlessly as possible. In short, Toffler is indeed a revolutionary. And revolutionaries are in short supply these days, even if they wear button-downs. Americans, ensconced in their conservative ways, need people like Toffler to prod them out of their listless intellectual stupor...