Word: facing
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...perjury and also charged with accepting a $2,000 campaign contribution from an officer of the school custodians' union (unbeknownst to the union members). A grand jury also found that three other board members were guilty of impropriety, suggested that they resign. One did; the other two face ouster suits. Dan Schlafly has also gone to court to oust another building commissioner, who went from board member to the $15,000-a-year commissioner's job, a maneuver that Schlafly considers poor policy...
...biretta askew. If there were finicky intellectuals present, he was likely to recite the liturgy in ungrammatical Latin. Sometimes he had his hair cut in church: once he turned up at the poshest party in Rome with a week's growth of beard on one side of his face. Yet he was a saint-respected by several Popes, visited by cardinals on his sickbed...
...introspective expression suitable for the spirit world. But in the Late Period, sculpture was intended for the temple and was meant to be seen by worshipers. Late Period sculptors tried to endow their statues with features that reflected the character and inner life of a specific person. The face of the Woman in Ecstasy (see color) is suffused with bliss as she tilts her vividly sculptured head upward, her eyes wide and her lips parted. Such sensuality is condemned as decadent by many Egyptian classicists. Yet this sculpture has an inherent vibrancy. The youth in the Dattari Statue combines...
...title role, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn offered one of the finest characterizations of her career. From the moment she stepped out from behind a grotto, her body elfin, her face sharply kittenish, until she tremulously bestowed the kiss of death on her faithless lover Palemon (ably danced by Michael Somes), her movements had the kind of effortless grace that commanded immediate conviction. At one point, hovering in her lover's arms, she reached down to stroke his hair in a gesture that caught the whole measure of the heroine's innocence and fear. Ondine's weakness...
Just by chance, the Journal's executive managing editor is M. (for Michael) Ogden. Just by chance, Providence's M. Ogden was instrumental last January in dropping Dick Tracy from the Journal for good, after taking offense at a particularly unsanitary Gould creation called Flyface, around whose face flies orbit continually. It was after the Journal's action that Gould introduced felonious Poet Ogden to his readers...