Word: rigidities
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...Greenfield's dancing and choreography are eccentric, and at times a little awkward, but she dances very well. She portrays the sensuousness, the fear, and the rigid dignity of the Queen with perfect confidence. Her dancing is stiff, but dramatically right; when her fingers open stiltedly you think of them as somehow organic, like something growing in jerks. Lance Morrow is grave as the fearful and proud King, and the music and the direction complement the motion nicely...
...fighter has his head a bit higher and less securely anchored by his neck muscles, a severe blow to practically any part of the head will make the skull move in the direction of the punch. The jelly-like brain does not accelerate as fast as the rigid skull, so part of the brain is in effect struck by bone. Usually the effect is no worse than that produced when any fleshy part of the body is hit with a hard object: a bruise, from the breaking of minute blood vessels. A long succession of moderate contusions (bruises), which cause...
Auld Kirk. Since its beginnings with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the Kirk has held fast to a Calvinism that in one sense is more rigid than John Calvin's. Calvin's influence on John Knox, the great Scottish reformer, made him an architect of the Kirk's bulwark against the papacy. In 1647, Scottish delegates to the Westminster Assembly wed their church to a Confession of Faith that described the Pope as "AntiChrist, man of sin, son of perdition." The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1960 visit to Pope John tested the ground for all Protestantism...
...inexperienced in the field that the car bolted backward when thrown into first gear. Today, however, Volvo factories swarm with lynx-eyed inspectors so uncompromising that suppliers are apt to find entire shipments of parts rejected for a minor deviation that many auto companies would let pass. Such rigid adherence to standards comes straight from Volvo's incisive Managing Director Gunnar Engellau, 55, who coldly compels his top executives to reduce their weight whenever they deviate from his specifications for the ideal male figure. Since Engellau took over in 1956, Volvo production has climbed from 36,766 cars...
...program is an abomination," snorts Indian Head's Robison. "It is completely ineffective and outrageously expensive. It is a deterrent to economic growth and an obstacle in reaching the goal of increased productivity of the nation." It has also cost the U.S. its leadership in world cotton. Since rigid controls began in 1933, U.S. output has remained fairly stable at 14 million bales, while foreign production has grown from 14 million bales to 30 million. Textile makers also complain that the quality of U.S. cotton has deteriorated because the U.S. stands ready to buy whatever its farmers produce...