Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pages. J. Philip O'Hara. $15. "Only the marvelous is beautiful," Poet André Breton once wrote, and René Magritte's paintings make that point. Since most of the excellent reproductions in this book cover entire pages without frames of white space, the reader is thrust into the Belgian surrealist's enigmatic world. An immense rock floats in the sky, a bottle becomes a carrot, a coffin sits on a wall. Mercifully, the text is minimal, for Magritte's content is captivating beyond words...
Three plays later, with third down and 10 on its 30-yard line, Stetson hit Jack Thomas with a spectacular 45-yard pass. Penn was unable even to halt the Big Green, which scored seven plays later on a one-yard thrust by fullback Steve Webster...
...Hoss is shivering inside his black leather. Unbound by the system or the code, "gypsy" mavericks are working the territory. In Act II, Hoss is challenged by a gypsy named Crow (Mark Metcalf). They engage in a sacrificial stomping dance entangled in electric cords and thrust microphones. It is part musical cutting session, part machine-gun duel of far-out words, and it is as chillingly old as a tribal rite in which the young warrior snatches control from the aging patriarch. The language varies between wild incomprehensibility and allusive symbolism. Crow, for instance, calls Hoss, "Feathers," meaning horse feathers...
...reached would be to launch an attack on Saigon. Guerrilla forces are already operating in small units within 15 miles of the capital, on Highway 1 to the northwest and Highway 13 to the north. Allied intelligence analysts doubt that the Communists are capable of making a major thrust on Saigon, though they concede that attacks by sappers and rocket crews could occur at any time...
...Field Service program, which began operations in February 1968, was set up "to provide technical help, without fee, to groups not able to afford regular professional services." Although the main thrust of the program was to furnish poor community groups with technical assistance, the UFS also was structured to give. GSD students academic credit for field work...