Word: styles
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...toured around the world, promising "a generation of peace." It's only right that his moment in history' should be his resignation speech, and CMS records has made that phrase the title for its recording. Again the speech is just another example of Nixon's beat-around-the-bush style. But more than that, it evokes the same frustrations: Nixon didn't resign, he simply didn't "have a strong enough political base in Congress," and he sauntered off to a quarter-million dollar free ride to San Clemente "while daring greatly." Ford's inaugural speech, what he called "just...
...BOTANIST "pilobolus" is a kind of fungus that ejects its spores. It might seem a poor choice for the name of a dance troupe, but in an odd way "pilobolus" does suggest their style. Departing from classical ballet form, where the body moves with a fluid grace. Pilobolus has choreographed dances that stress the interaction of human bodies. By contorting their backs and intertwining their limbs these six dancers' can arrange themselves in a staggering number and variety of patterns. The dancers bodies often mingle in such complex and intriguing ways that their limbs and extremities seem extensions...
...best seller in the socks scene is a style known as the "toe sock" or "wiggler," which fits, glovelike, in between the toes. The toe look is so successful that one manufacturer, Bonnie Doon, will soon introduce a mitten sock that has one section for the big toe, another for the remaining digits...
Pressed Flower. The son of an avid shell collector, Connolly had a passion for classifying. He invented categories of style-for instance, mandarin (Samuel Johnson, Henry James, and all those who don't write as they talk, including, of course, Connolly). His lifetime hobby was drawing up lists of those who made literature what it is today, culminating in that half book, half catalogue, The Modern Movement. Connolly loved the sweeping judgment: "The greatest single poem of the first half of the twentieth century . . ." turns out to be the Four Quartets. "If there is one key book...
Unfortunately, the book's prose style is a cross between "Dear Abby" and early Chinese fortune cookie ("There are none so frightened as those who will not concede their fear"; "Life is rarely without pain as well as pleasure, unhappiness as well as happiness"). But squeezed in amid the aphorisms are three nuggets of information: masturbation can relieve menstrual cramps; women seem more sexually responsive about two months after childbirth because of the increased blood supply to the pelvis; and in the first hour of sleep after orgasm, the woman usually moves toward the man, while he tends...