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Word: crouches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...natural to life itself. A lyricism as honest as a blade of grass in a boulder's crack keeps thrusting through. And so marriage, under the toughest scrutiny by Atwood the novelist, eventually is seen by Atwood the poet as "the edge of the receding glacier" where we crouch- where painfully and with wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Consuming Hunger | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...over three-footers, and there were tournaments when I couldn't keep a meal down for four days." The pressure causes golfers to study a green as though it were a minefield, surveying each blade of grass along the intended route. Their stances vary from the pigeon-toed crouch of Palmer to the cross-handed contortions of Orville Moody. And once the ball is on its way, they try to coax it along into the hole with some of the most astounding body English this side of a Martha Graham troupe. The stakes are worth it. As some laureate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Flat Blade | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...actors do a creditable imitation of the famed brothers, it is Lewis J. Stadlen as Groucho who achieves inspired mimicry. He has the best lines. (Groucho always did.) He has all the rest too: the eyes and eyebrows that whip up and down like window shades, the fluent crouch, the quick leer and the quicker wit of an urban bordello cavalier. He is a great credit to the show and-the ultimate compliment-to Groucho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: No Madness in these Marxes | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...crouch in the corner

Author: By Marco Taft, | Title: Coming Home | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

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