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Breath is everything, says Bovingdon, who took up dancing when he was 33, and ever since has made every motion a dance movement, including shaving, dressing and eating. Said he (Paris, 1929): "Introduce into an ordinary breath the yawn quality. Let this 'yawmzed breath' through its natural partner, the stretch, animate the entire body. This is the 'stylized breath.'" Once he explained: "We are a band groping toward intuitive communication. . . . When you conceive of a community, all members of which are swayed by kindred emotions of awe and wonder, expressing themselves through plastic bodies moving rhythmically...
...country was the territory served by isolationist Chicago Tribune, where the Tribune's editorials and Charles Augustus Lindbergh's shrill "they can't touch us" had all but drowned out OCD's weak little toot. Last week the Midwest had just begun to yawn and stretch. In Wisconsin it was announced that plans for civilian defense were going to be given "prolonged study." St. Louis declared that it would get around this week to enrolling some 50,000 volunteers which it figured it might need...
...opening corpse through three acts' worth of looking for the killer, the cliches trip over each other in their eagerness to get across. The wise-cracking reporters, the unconnected telephone, the slow-witted darkie, they're all there, most of them good for a laugh, the rest for a yawn. The second act in particular is pretty slow-moving, though Mr. Kaufman is doubtless concocting new tricks to bolster it up by the time he's ready to bring his proteges to the roaring Forties for an extended visit. There's still a lot of deadwood to be cleared away...
MARY B. GILSON has held posts with dull names-welfare worker, employment superintendent, economics professor. She is an expert on subjects that would draw a yawn from most people-unemployment insurance, scientific management, wage and promotion systems. But in this exciting story of her life, all these things come alive...
...legends to campus statues which are said to move whenever a pure maid walks by. Under like conditions the lions in front of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue are said to roar, have, according to Author Sharp's appendix, "so far [been] observed only to yawn...