Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration and the Faculty oppose these demands. The Administration argues, in principle, that parents and spouses should shoulder part of the burden of support for graduate students, and bolsters this argument by turning its empty pockets inside out. The financial crisis is the overriding fact facing the entire University, the argument goes, and all groups in the community must reduce their demands accordingly...
...three-year-old repeated a few days later as his slain father's body passed by him. Cecil also caught the marvelous sequence that weekend of President Kennedy sitting in the sun reading the paper as Caroline's inquisitive pony Macaroni began to nibble on the presidential shoulder and head until a laughing Kennedy had to roll over and crawl away, shouting, "Keep shooting, you are about to see a President eaten by a horse...
Shuffling onto the bare, makeshift stage of Boston's Church of the Covenant, Al Pacino's Richard could be taken for a failed Mafia assassin seeking asylum. The left sleeve of his green knit pullover bunches around some unspeakable wound of a hand. The yarn in the shoulder stretches obscenely over his hump. His cheeks quiver with little tics. His lips pout in private arrangements of humor and rage. When he speaks, Elizabethan English seems to acquire a Sicilian accent: Shakespeare out of The Godfather...
...West Coast, Lou Galliani, is the epitome of the new look in rising record-company executives, tricked out in velvet jeans, flowery shirts, shell beads around his neck and African trading beads around his wrist. He carries a leather shoulder bag and has a house near San Francisco that is decorated with animals, tropical fish and a delectable girl friend. Galliani sends the usual flowers and small gifts to radio-station employees (the bag limit is $25 by FCC law), procures the usual concert tickets and arranges the usual listener contests for trips to Hawaii with Elvis, or whatever...
...frame sequence by Eve Sonneman, whose work attracted the interest of Diane Arbus. The first of these frames shows the head and left side of a man rowing a small boat, watching another boat approaching from behind. The second frame, right beside it, shows only the man's right shoulder, arm and bar, but in the background the second boat has now passed by. The eye leaps the frame, unites the two sides of the man's body and ends up two contradictory moments expressed in the positions of the background boat...