Word: stroller
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...traveled through Italy the next year. He first supported himself by making sketches for popular engravings, blossomed into genius in the last decade of his life, and died in 1569, before his 45th birthday. He left a wife and two sons. He was self-possessed, a habitual stroller and something of a practical joker; that about completes the record. Brueghel doubtless kept off the center of the stage on purpose: one sees better from the wings...
...Stop This Thing!" Photographer Burton Glinn of Magnum climbed the meat counter for a better view, ignored the butcher's outraged order to stop tenderizing his chops, was finally brought down by a rolling block from the butcher himself. Still another duty-bound photographer hurdled the baby-stroller of a startled matron, landed on a moving conveyor belt, and aimed his camera as the belt carried him relentlessly toward the checking stand. "Somebody stop this thing!" he yelled. "It's wrecking my shot!" Farther across the store, in the midst of the cascading canned goods and shattering glass...
...late Poet Wallace Stevens, Connecticut insuranceman, might have seemed sheer Mandarin to most of his clients-but not to a Chinese. Chinese painters ignore the iron bonds of perspective (which imply a stationary viewer and make the picture frame a sort of window frame) and strive instead for the stroller's leisurely view...
Even more astonishing is the grasshopper's nervous system, which can fire his leg muscles at either a stroller's gait or a flat-out leap. Hoyle says the control lies in two simple nerve fibers that attach to the jumping muscles; one is for slow action, one for leaping. The tiny bundles of muscle fibers that are packed like the fibrils of a feather all along the thigh are never fully activated by impulses carried by the slow-action circuit, and so the grasshopper can walk where it pleases...
...Long Gray Line creeps forward with its study cards, as the sun, elsewhere, sets toward the 5 p.m. deadline. In the foreground, a baby, which was born and grew up before the last of the students had reached the doors of University Hall, gurgles quietly in a Scotch Plaid stroller. The student rushing off in the background had arrived early but spent most of the afternoon looking up exam groups. Those who did not pass the doors on or before 5 p.m. were charged the traditional ten dollar fine. The fine, in the past, has been added to the tardy...