Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DESPITE the alarm caused by the Wallace shooting, McGovern still seems comfortable in the huge crowds that come to see and hear him. He wades into the throngs, smiling confidently, patting a shoulder, pausing now and then for a "Hi, how are you?" On the podium, however, the smile is replaced by a seriousness that transforms him into a political preacher of fire and brimstone crusading for a righteous cause. Like an Old Testament prophet, McGovern talks of good and evil, light and darkness; his tough speeches are sprinkled with biblical quotations. He always gets loud applause from the audiences...
...Take, has been the No. 1 LP. Roberta has also become a top concert attraction. Warbling her way thoughtfully through the soul classic Ain't No Mountain High Enough or Bob Dylan's Just Like a Woman, her head thrown straight back or tilted lazily to one shoulder, she can be sedate enough to appear with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops-as she did two weeks ago. Or she can burst with the full flavor of Southern blues, as in Eugene McDaniels' Reverend Lee, which she introduced recently to a Denver audience thus: "Lemme paint this...
...nightfall, a team of Holy Cross surgeons were at work on Wallace. Four, perhaps all five of the bullets had struck him. Two apparently passed through his right arm and shoulder; another glanced off his left shoulder blade. One crashed through his abdomen, perforating his stomach and nicking his large intestine; it was removed...
...comes to realize he needs them both. He wrassles unsuccessfully with guilt when his best buddy, Clete (Slim Pickens), a rodeo clown who keeps an avuncular eye on Lew, gets his neck broken for his trouble. When last seen, Lew is wandering off over yonder hill, saddle over his shoulder, sadder but prob ably not much wiser...
...liver, and so on. "Active in the World" calls for lying motionless, forearms supported on elbows, palms facing the feet, while feeling "the tissues of your body actively engaged in the dance of Life." The instructions for "Passive in the Cosmos" specify one arm held straight up from the shoulder while the believer feels himself "absorbing the vibrations of the solar system and beyond...