Word: footedly
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...left, the unfinished wall is more than a foot shorter than the dominating image of the body at work. It seems to weigh less than the image of the woman stilled in her movement towards it. If the woman holds the key to the work, we may require more of her identity: does she represent a kind of social autobiography of the artist? The motion of the actor is already described: "Crossing the Rubicon" refers to Caesar's crossing of the small stream in Italy, beginning the war with Pompey. His words, "alea jacta est" or "the die is cast...
Society also supports education acquired via traditional means. Take correspondence courses, for example. These courses offer a form of distance learning similar to that proposed by Saylor; in both, students sign up for courses and can get a degree without ever stepping foot in a classroom. Yet, degrees earned through established correspondence courses are commonly held to be inferior to those earned at universities. An online university would simply be the high-tech version of the correspondence course...
...large that the U.S. Postmaster General banned the cards from the mails. As bad as the pictures of the victims are, those of the faces of the crowd are worse. They stare back at you with the expressions of carnal complicity that you see in faces at the foot of the Cross in Renaissance Crucifixion scenes. You hear their voices in the inscriptions that appear on the backs of some of the postcards--words more unnerving, in their sleepy innocence, than curses: "This is the Barbecue we had last night my picture is to the left with a cross over...
...QUIET AMONG RUTABAGAS Recently, Rhode Island named Mr. Potato Head its official travel ambassador and began planting six-foot statues of him across the state. But that's not the only breaking tuber story...
That's where the so-called initiation points come in. "All earthquakes start in small areas," says William Ellsworth, who has studied quakes in Southern California as a member of the USCG Earthquake Hazards Team. These initiation points can be as small as a foot or as large as a mile or two across. Instead of lubricating 350 miles, it might be possible to concentrate on just eight or 10 miles--costly, but not prohibitive...