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...forgotten. Even the contemporary fascination with photography has not elevated Muybridge to his proper place. These volumes may redress the balance. With the exactitude of a scientist and the dramatic sense of a stage designer, Muybridge observed lions, donkeys, dogs, deer, even elephants as they strode and ran. Their movements, caught in chiaroscuro, give the studies an eerie, dreamlike quality that has never quite been duplicated. Other series of nude men, women and children are done without a hint of prurience and provide a brilliant study of anatomy. The price tag on this rediscovered classic is prohibitive, but no library...
Hand in hand, smiling and seemingly without a care in the world, Bert and LaBelle Lance last week strode into the Richard Russell Federal Building in Atlanta. They headed for the gold-upholstered ceremonial courtroom on the 23rd floor, site of the most unpleasant event in Lance's go-go career. His long awaited trial for violating U.S. banking laws was about to begin, and he professed to be eager to get started. Said Lance: "We're ready to move ahead...
Just back from the last of his international journeys in 1979, the Pope strode to the window of his Vatican apartment and addressed the waiting crowd in the chill night air of St. Peter's Square. "As Jean-Paul Sartre says, 'You have to know when to stay home,' " John Paul II told the throng, his face creasing with the luminous smile that has become his trademark. "We have earned a good rest, both...
Crimson freshman Darlene Beckford (4:54) and sophomore Kristin Linsley (5:03.8) also seemed to forget the Wildcat runners when they strode off from the pack in the mile, both finishing under the now anachronistic school record...
...time the President strode across the White House lawn, head held defiantly high, the State Department had drafted a statement posing the military threat obliquely but unmistakably. Secretary Vance argued against issuing the statement immediately, on the ground that it might further inflame the mobs in Tehran. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and others insisted that the Iranians had to be warned of the dangerous consequences before they actually put any Americans on trial...