Word: shuttlecock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...territory: the U.S. continues to operate a naval base at Guantanamo. The native strength of the Cuban people and their achievements in only two decades seem to offer hope that this small island of 10 million will eventually be able to free itself from the role of shuttlecock in a super-powered game of badminton...
...noble ineloquence, as though Piero della Francesca were visiting the nursery. In some way Chardin's absorption in the act of painting paralleled the absorption of children in their games, which he painted. One has only to look at the figure in his portrait Little Girl with Shuttlecock-the expressionless face and white shoulders jammed into the stiff bodice like an ice cream into its cone, the sequence of forms pinned together by accents of blue on her cap, her dress, her scissors ribbon and the feathers of the shuttlecock- to realize the truth of Rosenberg's insight...
...this theory, "bad cop" Brzezinski would be unleashed when the Soviets needed slapping down or conservatives in the U.S. needed placating; "good cop" Vance would speak out to keep detente alive and mollify anxious American liberals. Yet Carter himself, many noted, was not always a consistent referee of such "shuttlecock" diplomacy. The President left many wondering, even after his Annapolis speech on June 7, which "cop" he was speaking for. At Annapolis, he denounced the Soviets for their aggressive actions abroad and their abuse of human rights at home, yet he reaffirmed that detente was "central to world peace...
...political activity on the right of SDS virtually stopped. Some were radicalized: probably a greater number simply withdrew from politics. This absence of a continuing counterweight to SDS in 1968-69 meant that, when the April crisis erupted, the mass of moderate students became, for the most part, a shuttlecock to be hit back and fourth between radical activists, liberal faculty, and conservative faculty and administrators. "Moderates" flocked to the stadium meetings, stenciled strike fists on their tee shirts, and finally brought the strike to an end by returning to their prior state of political inertia and exhaustion...
...film records the shuttlecock progress of Charlotte (Macha Mcril), a rather pretty young woman who shares her affections with Pierre (Philippe Leroy), an airplane pilot, and Robert (Bernard Noel), an actor. Although Pierre is her husband, the distinction makes little difference; she doesn't know who has fathered her unborn child, and she dismisses the question (in fact, nearly all questions) from her mind: The Married Woman contains incident but no development, characterization but no conflict. Charlotte and Robert make love, Pierre comes home, Charlotte and Pierre hold a dinner party and make love, Pierre departs, and Charlotte and Robert...