Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bittersweet Memories. If Mick Micheyl is a Parisian spring breeze, Juliette Greco is a gust from a dark grotto. In Manhattan last week, with her weedy dark hair hanging to her waist, she chanted in French the bittersweet songs that have made her famous at home. Her large, square hands shaped the phrases; her high-cheekbonsd, chalky face was alternately sullen and sad. In her best song, I Hate Sundays ("Every day of the week is empty and hollow, but there's worse than the weekday, there's pretentious Sunday"), her voice faded to an organ whisper. Even...
...friends' appreciation alone, and even then never allowed them to touch the silk for fear it would become soiled. His painting pointed to a new direction. Originating a pointillist style of ink-splash dots (still known as "Mi-dots"), he produced in paintings like Auspicious Pines in the Spring Mountains China's first impressionist landscape. Its curious sugarloaf mountains are drawn in loosely applied brush strokes and washes, trees are carefully controlled blobs of ink. The human scale is merely suggested with the bare-bones outline of a lone pavilion...
Like kindergarten teachers explaining recess rules to a new class, big-league umpires take time out during spring training to explain baseball's official code of conduct to the players. Like kindergarten teachers, they know better than to mistake attention for agreement. Last week, with barely a dozen games played in the 1957 season, the players were having such a good time breaking rules that baseball's rulemakers were busy rewriting the book...
...father, Spike tried hard not to let go. When the courts ordered him to sell, he talked the new owners into keeping him on as executive vice president and general manager, but last week his resignation was "accepted." Said Spike: "It was a semi-force play." ¶ A warm spring day left Olympic Pole Vaulter Bob Gutowski with a spring to spare. In a dual meet with Stanford, the Occidental College senior had the bar set at 15 ft. 9 in., cleared it by almost 4 in. Later measurement showed that the bar had sagged...
...jumpers at the meet have practiced only on an informal basis this spring, except for the Cambridge Parachuting Club representatives...