Word: sinew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director: "I'm not a writer. I'm just someone who writes plays and scripts for a single purpose -to serve as skeletons awaiting flesh and sinew...
...Crimson was now nursing a 17-16 lead when Smith tussled with a shock of sinew named Steve Glasgow. "Last year he had a lot of baby fat on him," Smith said as his voice trailed away ominously, but he proved up to the occasion, clawing to a 3-1 win over Glasgow...
...often the counter, paragraph bracket and paragraph loop-see diagram). Each skater performs alone on the ice. Each may have some reference point in the rink-a pillar or sign-to help line up the dimensions of the figure, but the only reliable road maps are images programmed into sinew and synapses through years of etching the pattern in outlines of frost...
...with an amazing clarity of design. The panther hammered from a sheet of gold and worn as a shield ornament in the late 7th or early 6th century B.C. contains, in its bulging, simplified planes, all the rhythmical vitality one might expect from Cubist sculpture: an epigram of predatory sinew translated into metal...
...best thing, likewise, about Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is its quality of going over familiar territory and coming up with things never quite expected. This is Director-Writer Michael Cimino's first film, and he demonstrates a scrupulously controlled style that lends sinew even to such usually dreary scenes as the preparations for the robbery and strategies of escape...