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This maneuver requires 20 stitches with thread finer than a human hair and barely visible to the naked...
...many ex-fighters work with children after retirement. Perhaps it is a means of staying close to the incandescence of their youth. Or perhaps it is an impulse to pass on that special strength forged in fighting, man's first competition. Ali tells how his daughter tried to thread a needle for several minutes, then gave up in frustration. "I spanked her and made her try again. It wasn't important for her to thread the needle, but it was important to wash away the taste of defeat. She had to learn she could not fail...
Fine fed Banks with a backdoor pass for a three-point play that kept the Quakers holding on by a thread, 71-70. Booker hit a foul shot to tie it at 71 apiece. For the next six minutes the score tipped back and forth deadlocked as both teams traded roundhouses in the closing donnybrook...
...reasons Survival is so effective is that Workshop '71 has obviously experimented with a number of dramatic techniques. Survival is more like a collage than a narrative play, with a political thread tying it together instead of a plotline. It works, far better than one could have expected. Survival constantly shifts its focus, requiring the audience to stay involved with the play as a whole...
...evolutionary theories of the family and the empirical sociology of urbanization are clear, well-written and illustrated with historical examples. But the chapter on the development of personality theory and the psychoanalytic controversies of the '30s and '40s is far less transparent to the uninitiated. Occasionally, Lasch loses the thread of his argument as set out in the early chapters; at times he fails to preserve the connection between intellectual history and social history. Too often, he seems to soar to unnecessarily abstract heights, to stray into foggy, anecdotal or theoretical discussions which have no apparent ties to the major...