Word: rimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THUMB THROW. The thumb is laid under the forward edge of the Frisbee with the rest of the hand curled around the rim, palm up. The disk is launched with a forehand flick of the wrist...
...FINGER THROW. The Frisbee is held from behind, palm up, with the forefinger and middle finger against the rim. The Frisbee slides off the middle finger during a forehand snap release...
...assists) and fifth leading rebounder (14.3 per game). He charges around the court so hard that he sometimes bursts the seams of his size 14½ sneakers. During a recent game with the Denver Nuggets, officials had to stop play for 20 minutes while workmen replaced a steel rim that McGinnis had bent out of shape with one of his slamming dunk shots...
What is happening in a work like Triptych, May-June 19741 What relation does the center panel, with its interior space - a platform with one figure crawling round the rim and another sit ting in a pool of violet shadow at the back - have to the two beach scenes on either side? Whose are the two heads in old-fashioned collars that rise, like oppressive icons of paternal authority, be hind the platform? Unanswerable questions. What remains, nevertheless, is an extraordinary density and layering of sensation - the Grand Manner returned to figurative art, but scraped...
Israel indicated willingness to pull back in the key Mitla and Gidi passes of the Sinai-not to the eastern rim as Egypt wants, but at least far enough back to put the Suez Canal out of range of Israeli artillery. In return, Jerusalem wanted the Egyptians to reduce the size of their armed forces, which would have allowed the Israeli government to cut military enlistments by six months and thus demonstrate signs of peaceful progress to civilians at home...