Word: uprightness
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...March" two men in blue jeans and white T-shirts take turns manipulating one another into poses as two women in red-striped T-shirts and white pants prance through ignoring the men. The women dance in the funny upright way Armour often choreographs movement. It's as if she wants to keep her dancers from noticing whether they're doing ballet or jazz...
...frenzy. The climaxes seem to come from one root gesture, a balance on one foot with the other leg held stiffly to the side just off the floor. Paxton transforms this pose at another moment into a slippery soft-shoe, and later into an awkward stumble, buoying to stay upright. The image is of a swimmer with his head always just slightly above water...
...might call Lily's lifestyle spartan, and the house, painted a cerulean blue, is small, almost a parody of a star's usual manse. "If I hit the skids tomorrow," she says, "I could still afford the house." She has a jukebox in the living room, an upright piano in the foyer and a small, cluttered study downstairs, with pictures of cherished stars of the past like Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. The ceiling of her bedroom is painted sky blue, with puffy white summer clouds-her brother Richard's artwork. In the back there...
...early days of the century, when typewriters were upright and competition was downright dirty. American newspapers used to rake each other's muck with all the verve they now expend on erring politicians. These days most papers observe an unwritten rule: Thou shalt not take a poke at another practitioner. Last week, however, one of the nation's biggest dailies, the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,005,000), threw a haymaker at a smaller paper in nearby Long Beach, the Independent, Press-Telegram. In a rambling 20,000-word account spread over seven pages, the Times accused...
...occurring in the Orion Nebula (see color page), the illuminated portion of a gigantic cloud of gas and dust that is giving birth to new stars. Some of the stars spawned by the nebula have been formed as recently as the time when the human species first stood upright; the newest offspring are only about 100,000 years old−mere infants by stellar standards...