Word: rhythm
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...reproduce in stone every rhythm of the human body became for him almost a monomania. He would have his model throw herself down over and over in different attitudes, any attitudes, and would draw her with fierce, scrawling strokes. How his Man with the Broken Nose was refused by the Salon jury is history; in 1877 he was accused of faking his Age of Bronze-now in the Luxembourg -by taking a mold from the living model. Good people have denounced his works wholesale as "erotic." Academicians have stated that he^ combines a coarse literary mind with an inadequate technique...
...into an able quarterback, moved the year following to halfback, his regular position. He runs with a long bounding stride far better adapted to open field gains than line-plunging. He is not, as some have declared, an extraordinary sprinter. Though fast, he eludes tacklers rather by the perfect rhythm of his running?the hip-action by which he dodges without losing speed...
...reluctant summer made the weather uncomfortable for Notre Dame's new machine. Rain oiled its cogs, greased its poles. Inevitably, the team that went into action lacked the rhythm of Knute Rockne's 1924 champions, but few predictions of what it may become in the next few weeks could be based on its effortless, slipshod, 41-0 victory over Baylor University of Waco...
...their noise has jarred through the brains of the townsmen, mingling its drowsiness with the reveries of sleepyheads until that jargoning has become part of the normal somnolence of the place, part of the indistinguishable murmur of the summer countryside, the wash of the salt air and the brooding rhythm of the distant sound...
...occasional privilege of bringing home his cemetery left. The referee's decision was unpopular. "A champion is ut," McTigue's followers queried, "that ham an'egger?" They were consoled only because they had seen, in a preliminary bout, a light-heavyweight boxer whose speed and rhythm surpassed anything in the memory of some, and set others thinking of Fitzsimmons and Wolgast. For him-James Slattery of Buffalo- sports writers flatly prophesied the world's heavyweight championship. "And when he meets Berlenbach . . ." said McTigue's adherents later that evening, fortifying themselves against the dampness and their...