Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stories we tell ourselves before we wake. Who then could feign indifference to the dreams of artists? Virginia Woolf recalled a nightmare in A Sketch of the Past: "I dreamt I was looking in a glass when a horrible face-the face of an animal-suddenly showed over my shoulder." The visitation was, she said, her persistent "looking glass shame," and in a fantasy of a haunted house she later wrote, "Death was the glass! Death was between...
...sport, vision, long arms, unselfish attitude"-up to this point, Cousy could be describing himself-"and everything else you might want to order. He's the most innovative player." His specialty: one-time-only passes for one-time-only plays. "Did you see that off-the-shoulder job? What's the cliche-necessity is the mother of invention?" Cousy is often called the best passer ever, and he thinks Bird is better...
Lefty John Sorich came in from the bullpen and after running the count on Snarsky to 3-1, got him to ground to shortstop. The ball, however, skipped up off the bumpy infield and ricocheted off Tony DiCesare's shoulder and into center field, scoring two more runs, all that Ballerini would need on this...
...Lyndon Johnson's press officers, and still an astute judge of power perks. One of Christian's main innovations was still operational. That is a circular desk, situated in the office corner to prevent reporters from sneaking behind a press secretary and reading secret dispatches over his shoulder...
Some are dressed in their Sunday best; others, in their work clothes. A group of nurses stands out in white. A boy, oblivious to the music washing around him, tilts a can of pop to his lips, his mother's arm on his shoulder. The minister thanks several local companies for giving food to his congregation. He clambers down from the wooden platform to talk to two elderly women. Richard Daley, the late mayor's son, says a few words but looks uncomfortable speaking on this side of the fence and disappears soon after. The minister is grateful anyway...