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...Some 16 ft. high at the tallest point, the two pieces represent the rounded rump and upright torso of a semireclining figure. Typically Moore-ish, she abstractly lounges in the reflecting pool, mingling the domestic grace of a nude in her bath with the powerful, primitive presence of a goddess disturbed from sleep by Leonard Bernstein. Manhattan's mightiest piece of modern sculpture was wrestled into place pretty much the way marbles were muscled into place in Michelangelo's day. Grunting workmen wedged the huge metallic shapes onto rollers, eased them down wood beams, hoisted them upright with...
...Rump Affair. His aim, Buckley said, was "to give the people of New York an opportunity to vote for a candidate who consults without embarrassment the root premises of the conservative philosophy of government." He reserved his coldest scorn for Lindsay, accused him of turning the G.O.P. into "a rump affair" that is "no more representative of the body of Republican thought than the Democratic Party in Mississippi is representative of the Democratic Party nationally." Lindsay, he said, "having got hold of the Republican Party, now disdains the association, and spends his days, instead, stressing his acceptability to the leftwardmost...
...seniors, debating the advantages of hook-and-eye over zipper gowns, shuffled by the statue of the founder of our nation's oldest and richest institution. Across the Common, where the girls commenced, it was all over by the kissing; for Harvard, only a dry run at the "Rump of Sever...
Will knock you on your rump...
...thing, the horse's rump was turned disdainfully on the Ministry of Finance building. More important, as far as Zambians were concerned, it was a monument not so much to Rhodes as to the despised Sir Godfrey Huggins, who, as Prime Minister of the now-disbanded Central African Federation, had offered an ill-considered definition of the ideal relationship between Africa's blacks and whites. The two races, Sir Godfrey had said in 1954, should work together like a horse and rider- the whites of course being in the saddle and the blacks under...