Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the sculptor cooked and joined in the monumental drinking bouts, could see that he was desperately lonely. "If you ask me why I make sculpture," he once said, "I must answer that it is my way of life, my balance and my justification for being." As a balance wheel that served in lieu of commoner satisfactions, it impelled him to subdue the brutal stuff of the machine age, giving it a style, a presence-and perhaps an esthetic future...
...spend the night in the cabin, and so she didn't. She, Tommy, and Eric drove back to Cambridge to grab a few hours sleep. The mist was worse than ever at night, so the ride back was scary. At one point, Nora told Tommy, who was behind the wheel, that they were driving into a brick wall. She was speaking figuratively, but Tommy took her literally, slammed on the brakes, and nearly sent Eric through the windshield. "We almost got killed," said Nora the next day, "It was really funny...
THIS LADY needs to get off the ground. She should take a ride on the Ferris wheel. She won't, though: it is far away behind a fence and she would have to struggle through the crowd and they would all stare at her. She might not even know it's there...
...help believing that there were several crucial moments when, if Zapata himself could have transcended his background, he could have have explained the urgency of his followers' needs. But such an unraveling of the misunderstanding never took place because Zapata, the excellent guerrilla tactician, was unable to wheel and deal at conferences. He bucked himself up for his important meeting with Pancho Villa by masquerading as part charro, an elegant cowboy, and part gypsy, rings and scarves and a lavender shirt. All through the meeting, Zapata hardly spoke. Glowering and slumped in the official photograph, he looked less like...
...Judging from your deportment, I'd say you're a wheel," answered Scott...