Word: spined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four years later, 1972, when his message was perhaps most powerful, that he was tracked down and shot by the deluded Arthur Bremer while delivering a campaign speech in a Maryland parking lot. One of the bullets lodged near his spine, and he was paralyzed from the waist down. He had won Florida, Tennessee and North Carolina and went on to win in the Maryland and Michigan primaries, but his drive for the nomination was halted. So was his career. He tried yet again in 1976, with male nurses carrying him in his wheelchair, but the old enthusiasm had faded...
...that's why you'll be shocked the first time you hear Street Hassle. It's the kind of album where you hear an outrageous line or a spine-tingling chord change and you've just got to hear it again...
...love-sick girls and baronets in disguise and family curses and portraits that come to life. Despite the absence of the celebrated Gilbert and Sullivan social wit and a rather abrupt finale, the show is as visually dazzling as it is technically brilliant. Sully Bonn's direction provides both spine-tingling and spine-tickling moments, and costumes and sets are executed with the customary G & S expertise. But enough of this undignified gushing. Simply see it if you can. Ruddigore plays tonight, Friday and Saturday at Agassiz Theatre; tickets available at the door or at the Holyoke box office...
...family, I am expected to fill the 'rents in on the details of life at school: intellectual pursuits stimulating lectures and an exhilerating, whirlwind, cosmopolitan social life. Unfortunately, words fail me here, because much of my life is spent hunched over a typewriter contracting curvature of the spine and shortchanging the glorious intellectual pursuits my family values...
...dancer of extraordinary subtlety and power--"he really does seem to have more in his little finger than most dancers have in their whole bodies," the New Yorker's Arlene Croce has remarked--and the movement of his dances, radiating from a center of balance in the lower spine, demands a firm technique. Despite the disjunction between music and dance, another key component of Cunningham style is rhythm. But as former dancer Brown explains, "Merce requires...that the rhythm come from within: from the nature of the step, from the nature of the phrase, and from the dancer...