Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thaddeus Stevens Elementary, nine blocks from the White House, Amy became the first President's child to attend a Washington public school since Teddy Roosevelt's son Quentin in 1906. While that was another demonstration of the new First Family's egalitarian faith, it also thrust Amy even further into the public spotlight that seems increasingly to bother her. Arriving at the school door, Amy tugged unsmilingly at her mother's arm as she stopped to wave to the crowd of photographers. Amy, says Mrs. Carter's press secretary, Mary Hoyt, "is self-conscious around...
...boys' room, where he would try out his routines. His ethnic-based act worked on New York's club circuit too, which led to his first national appearance on the Jack Paar show. Then, in December 1973, his stand-up routine on the Tonight Show thrust him into the big leagues: he had caught the eye of James Komack, who was casting his generation-and ethnic-gap sitcom. With Chico a winner, Prinze had reached...
Such roots and obligations appear to have given the author a sensible attitude toward her work. She has avoided the dangers of early acclaim that might have thrust her into the footsteps of such belles of Southern lettres as Flannery O'Conner and Eudora Welty. Instead, Grau has usually played to her strength - a cautious application of talent to the Southern traditions and people she knows best...
...which Bowie unsuccessfully strives in the other instrumental tracks of the album. The sustained and simple melody that succeed in "Warszawa" only make the other compositions simplistic and monotonous. Though they vary in the instruments used and in the general tone of each, none of the others have the thrust or commitment that could take them beyond the level of experimentation. Bowie hauls in a cartload of interesting effects--but his electronic toys weigh him down. He is too reliant on the variety of synthesized sounds he can achieve, and neglects the compositional structure necessary to unite their disparate elements...
...than the ingenious Felker himself. From its first issue of April 8,1968, his avenue-smart urban-survival one-upmanship manual has exerted an influence far beyond its current 375,000 circulation and Manhattan bailiwick. Though it is frequently footling and vulgar, the weekly's intelligence and imaginative thrust have given its aggressive boss the money-power to take over the raffish, rambunctious Village Voice in 1974 and, last year, to start New West, New York's California clone. They were to be only the first provinces of a Felker empire...