Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ballerina, Martine van Hamel. In the past few years Baryshnikov has invited several innovative choreographers to work for A.B.T., and not all have been successful. With her pure, ample style, Van Hamel has been much in demand and as a result has soldiered her way across some very murky terrain. Here she is radiant, a naturally commanding figure. The ballet's astonishing high point comes when her partner, Clark Tippet, promenades her on pointe as she balances on a chair and her extended leg whirls above his head...
...Linn Cove Viaduct, a segment of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, built by the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration. The jury calls it "an elegant curving ribbon that caresses the terrain without using it as a support. It gives the motorist the sensation of driving tantalizingly on air while the earth goes...
Alerted by a rancher who spotted the smoke of a campfire, France, alone and on foot, picked up their trail last week. He followed their tracks through snow and across rocky terrain for four miles. Rifle in hand, he slipped quietly toward their campsite, then strode almost casually into the opening. "Seen any coyotes around?" he asked. The father jumped up and reached for his rifle. "Please don't make me kill you!" warned the sheriff. France promised the thinly dressed but well-armed fugitives "a warm bed and warm food and warm water," then marched them into...
Perhaps this explains Monsieur's failure, in his own eyes, as an artist. He was too faithful a family man, too attentive a student, too much a gentleman to renounce the academic style and strike out boldly for the terrain charted by the impressionists. "Perhaps I lacked courage," he confides to Irène. "I thought if I'd admitted what was original in others I'd have lost my own little melody." He is like a Salieri who has taught himself, through a lifetime of small disappointments, to accept that he will never be a Mozart...
Will the Liberal Party be able to regain its traditional terrain? This is the essential question of the election. Will this defeat be the start of a permanent realignment in favor of the Conservative Party or will it be a temporary outburst like the avalanche that elected John Diefenbaker...