Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate positively twitches for this last national battle to begin. Indeed, to Reagan, the acts of campaigning for President and being President tend to merge and become one seamless public performance. His presidency has been loaded with theatricality; if all goes according to plan, his campaign will be full of presidential grandeur. Reagan just may be the most naturally and skillfully exuberant presidential campaigner of this century. When he addressed 20,000 red-hot devotees in Austin a few weeks ago, the audience hollered and clapped; Reagan's energy level rose in response; the crowd grew more frenzied in turn...
...years the reasons for having Olympics tend to fade, but the proof of value is fresh now in the faces of the athletes. Certainly nowhere else in sports, and maybe nowhere else at all, do the emotions show through the contests so clearly or compellingly, to the point of dominating first the action and then the results, finally becoming a theme more powerful than any one anthem or all of them combined. There must be a lot of great Communist Greco-Roman wrestlers around the Soviet Union and East Germany, but no one spoke of hollow victories in boycotted company...
...give you a hand," Naber said sympathetically. "I'll tell you the place to watch women's diving from, and that's from the underwater portholes with the camera crews. Very privileged place. Especially off the 10-meter board. The girls tend to have what we call pullaways. Their suits can't take the stress of coming into the water at that velocity. We never get complete pullaways, but certainly dramatic enough for the camera people. I could possibly get you in there...
...circle of friends in Paris included some of the most cultivated men of the day, such as the financier Pierre Crozat (whose collection of old-master drawings was said to have completed young Watteau's aesthetic education) and the Flemish artist Nicolas Vleughels. But their memoirs of Watteau tend to be short and sometimes contradictory; they blur when the traits of his possibly rather feckless, prickly character present themselves. He seems to have been solitary and misanthropic, though with flashes of antic gaiety: "A good friend but a difficult one," the dealer Edme-François Gersaint unhelpfully...
...physicality behind. To look at his fētes champětres -those felicitously idealized gatherings of young lovers, planted on the unchanging lawn of a social Eden-is to think of pollen and silk, not flesh. Watteau was a great painter of the naked body, but his nudes tend to privacy and reflection. They are completely unlike Rubens' magniloquent blond wardrobes. He seems, for this reason, the more erotic artist...