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Other dances explore not so much the matter of moving as the matter of constructing movement. "Signals," for example, is a gently humorous spoof on the whole business of making dances. As a couple move, Cunningham approaches them flaunting what appears to be a yardstick, poking and measuring the dancing as though fitting a suit of clothes; at another point a group labors through a sequence of banal repetitions, stopping and starting on a rhythmic "hut!" from Cunningham. And while the program listing outlined the dance's sequence in painstaking detail--the segments solemnly labelled "Trio...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: The Eloquence of Gesture | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...yardstick used in measuring a Congressman's success has changed. It used to be the number of bills you introduced. Now our constituents think that perhaps too many bills are introduced. What counts with our constituents is the service we give them and how well we oversee laws already on the books. The public is certainly less deferential to any officeholder, including Congressmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: More Difficult to Govern | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

Their red shifts seem to be a reliable yardstick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Far-Out Quasars | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...velocity of light. And according to a law formulated by Astronomer Edwin Hubbell in 1929, the greater the red shift of light from a galaxy, or island of stars, the farther away the galaxy is from the earth. Indeed, using the red shift from some quasars as a yardstick indicates that they could be 10 billion or more light-years away-making them the farthermost objects ever observed in the heavens by astronomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Far-Out Quasars | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...billion light-years away. And because the quasar-like object was imbedded in the galaxy, it was presumably the same great distance from the earth. Furthermore, the galaxy's brightness was consistent with that distance. Miller's conclusion: if the red shift was indeed a correct yardstick for an object that so closely resembled a quasar, it probably was accurate as well for quasars themselves, including those that seem to be at the very "edge" of the observable universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Far-Out Quasars | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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