quirt


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whip with a leather thong at the end

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BRIAN QUIRT, board chair, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas; artistic director, Nightswimming, Toronto; director, Banff Playwrights Colony, Alberta;
7 DAVID MARSHALL It was a quirt afternoon in the rain in may ways as the action was at the other end.
Louis Guglielmi, and Walter Quirt. For Janis, Surrealism was a framework that offered American artists a place to experiment with style and could readily absorb the art of the self-taught.
The search of related research resulted in a number of relevant studies which will be briefly discussed in this section: Blake (2013); Chapnick (2011); Gulliver (2011, 2012); Joyce (2014); Jafri (2012); Paquet (2012); Quirt (2003), and Wilton (2006, 2010).
And on Captain's Sea Adventure children can ride on lifeboat carriages with cannons to quirt out water.
Part 2, "Text," includes: Yolanda Ferrato, "Telling Stories Across Forms: Interview with Brian Quirt (artistic director, Nightswimming, Toronto) (53-67); Duska Radosavljevic, "Towards Performed Dramaturgy" (68-79); Gad Kaynar in conversation with Ruth Kanner, "Disruption as Revealing the Essence of Truth" (80-100).
Discontent ever since his father, a respected elevator man, was chosen for early disposal, Elgin's rebellious "horizontal tendencies" attract the attention of Quirt and Belfry, special agents of the IVT (Institute for Vertical Thinking) eager to apprehend him, most likely for delivery to the dreaded thirteenth floor.
Many images highlight the importance to a warriors reputation of counting coup: "One of the most prestigious acts was counting coup, which entailed making physical contact with an enemy or striking him with an object held in the hand, such as a quirt or bow" (22).
According to the pro trainer, I should have beat him with a quirt. The way it worked out was a lot more Jim for both of us.
Adjuncts sign up for the back offices when they want to meet with students, or simply need some quirt to concentrate and work.
When disturbed near their nest, whip-poor-wills will often express their agitation by making a call that has been described as a 'quirt.' Several years ago on a hike in the Dwarf Pine Plains, I came around a gentle bend to be met by a whip-poor-will that began quirting.
"The Magic Quirt" was first read in the pages of the June 1948 issue of 'The Rio Kid Western'.
cliffs into Romagna; the eel, torch, quirt, Love's earthy dart our