Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...round of incredibly high, twisting jumps, whirled whippet-quick through half a dozen spinning leaps in which his body seemed almost parallel to the stage, then snapped into a one-knee landing that left the audience gasping. Though the lyrical side of his artistry is still maturing, the solid, long-limbed Vladimirov exhibits an aerial freedom and heroic virility that few male dancers can match; in Moscow, he has a considerable following among women, who see him as a kind of Marlon Brando in tights...
...more dream than reality. They became something that comes down from the sky, but they were sensual." Adds Marini: "I always begin sculpting by painting-afterward the colored image remains in my mind, so then I have to add color to the sculpture." His paintings presage his excursions into solid stuff, explaining in their strong chromaticism Marini's expressionist sculpture. In pursuing his vision, Marini took his equestrians on a strange course through the steeplechase of time. At first, he made his man and horse strain as one being toward a high point of joy. Then, as the years...
Until the bank finds a more solid financial backing than it now has, it will be preoccupied with the simple question of survival. Although in the long run, such helpful steps as liberalization of mortgage credit or the establishment of an educational loan fund might be possible, Freedom National is behaving now very much like any other bank. Rather than admit this fact, Hudgins continues to talk race goals--partly because he really believes in them and partly because he thinks favorable publicity will attract the volume of small accounts the bank needs to survive...
Unfortunately, it may already be too late for the bank to build up a solid financial basis inside of Harlem, because of its original non-Harlem supporters. The rapid growth of the bank's deposits in the first ten months after the bank's opening in December 1964--at the rate of almost a million dollars a month--was largely due to a series of one-shot, good-will deposits from a variety of large white businesses such as Bowery Savings Bank and the Chemical Bank of New York. As long as Freedom National wants to feel sure that these...
...first weeks of the campaign have produced no solid disputes over issues. All four candidates, for the present at least, support President Johnson's Vietnam policy. All have declared their support for the right-to-work law, perhaps because Virginia is still industry-hunting and because organized labor has yet to show any real political pull in the state...