Word: rigidities
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...disgust, and a quick defensive rallying of your forces. Your wits are keyed to concert pitch, nothing can escape you, you are intensely self, conscious. You have utter and absolute control over all your nerves. You go right on lying there in his arms letting what must have gone rigid inside you with his words go rigid away inside your skin, so his arms can't sense the difference, can't feel the animal flinch that maybe after all you couldn't avoid...
...communications with Russia and China would continue to be the objective. We have made a beginning, but it is going to be a very, very difficult road, full of booby traps. I don't want to be specific right now, but people who assume that I am rigid in every area are wrong. I am not a wild man, but I am also not the kind who is prone to the status quo. I am not frightened of embarking on new courses that are going to upset a lot of people...
Many of the pictures in "The Flesh." "The Devil," and "Home" have the same autographic, arty quality as the cityscapes of "The world." People in rigid poses are strained into architectonic, formally abstract surroundings; heads are cropped off; expressions and compositions are strange but not descriptive...
...Arabs as well as Israel-a difficult equation-then peace will extend to the whole region. We ask you only to treat the Arabs as friends and put aside your big-stick policy. We are in contact with all parties, including the Palestinians. Our position is not rigid or extremist. We are not against moderation. We encouraged the efforts of Dr. Kissinger from the beginning, though it would have been possible for us to create problems. We tried to behave in the most responsible manner. We are a country that has had the experience of war. We lost a tenth...
...where she will work on her new novel and some poetry as well. Last week Jong and her husband began separation proceedings. As Flying clearly implies and as Jong confirms, "there were problems in our marriage from the start-those of a very verbal person married to a very rigid, uptight...