The choreographic device introduced to reflect the progress of this seduction is the supported backbend, exploiting Rogers ' exceptionally flexible back.

As the music becomes more energetic, the dancers flow across the floor and Rogers, moving against the music, suddenly falls into a deeper backbend, which is then repeated, only deeper still.

A Marinelli bend is a backbend while supported only by a grip at the top of a short post that is held in the mouth.

While most of them do not conduct at all, they lead the band onto the field, often after having several seconds for a short performance by themselves ( a backbend is traditional in many schools ).

* Headseat-An extreme backbend in which the top of the performer's head touches the buttocks ; usually in a handstand or chest stand.

The pair spin and lean, dodging back and forth past each other before moving into a standard ballroom position where the first hints of the supported backbend are introduced.

With the music reaching its grand climax Astaire and Rogers rush toward the camera, then away in a series of bold, dramatic manoeuvers culminating in three ballroom lifts which showcase Rogers ' dress before abruptly coming to a halt in a final, deepest backbend, maintained as the music approaches its closing bars.

In the extreme and oversimplified example suggested in Figure 3, the organization is more easily understood and more predictable in behavior.

But this truth is distorted by its extreme application: the assumption of the separate existence of tradition.

in the opening paragraph, too, Steele is accused of extreme egotism, of giving `` himself the preference to all the learned, his contemporaries, from Dr. Swift himself, even down to Poet Cr--spe of the Customhouse ''.

Each will decide on his own course somewhere between these two extreme cases according to the sense of responsibility which is determined for him by the particular circumstances of his own life.

Yet even in the more extreme of such cases we seldom go very far astray in guessing what his age actually is.

But in ways more fundamental than specific political opinions they are still what they always were: passionate, sure without a shadow of doubt of whatever it is that they are sure of, capable of seeing black and white only and, therefore, committed to the logical extreme of whatever it is they are temporarily committed to.

Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.

A call for action `` before it is too late '' has alarming implications when it comes from a man who, in his previous reports on the schools, cautioned so strongly against extreme measures.

If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's allotment percentage must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.

If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's Federal share must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.

It is our lack of extreme accuracy which forces the use of very large yield nuclear weapons.

Therefore, neglecting the extreme outbursts, reflected solar radiation is not expected to cause sizable errors in the measurements of planetary radiation in the centimeter- and decimeter-wave-length range.

The following is a less extreme example of dependence.

Context is of extreme importance.

The bondage endurable by an oral poet is to be estimated only by a very skilful oral poet, but it appears safe to assume that no sustained narrative in rhyme could be composed without extreme difficulty, even in a language of many terminal inflections.

The same thing is also evidenced by the extreme `` culture-Protestantism '' so often observed to characterize the preaching and teaching of the American churches.

This picture of extreme self-reliant individuation is difficult to reconcile with such Zendo formulas as: `` O you, demons and other spiritual beings, I now offer this to you, and may this food fill up the ten quarters of the world and all the demons and other spiritual beings be fed therewith.

The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

Her time spent at the many locations featured in her books is very apparent by the extreme detail in which she describes them.

Terrain is most rugged in the extreme southeast, which is drained by the Bargushat River, and most moderate in the Araks River valley to the extreme southwest.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.

The scene is etched in sharp detail, the military problems brilliantly explained, and the excitement and importance of the battle made evident.

The intuition about mankind conveyed in these opening pages is of crucial importance for understanding the remainder of the text ; ;

This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, for many veterans.

So don't see yourself as a heroine or fancy this little adventure is an event of major importance ''.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

The Medical Illustration Service is responsible for the collection, publication, exhibition, and file of medical illustration material of medico-military importance to the Armed Forces.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

Whether considered alone or in relation to other editions, COLH 40 is a document of prime importance.

Feed pressure is also of major importance.

They come prepared for family fun because Americans in ever-growing numbers are learning that here is the way to a fine economical vacation that becomes a family experience of lasting importance.

The importance of the sign industry to the plastics industry, however, is not in terms of volume alone.

The importance of knowing in what chemical forms the hormone may exist is accentuated by the recent observation that there exists an abnormally long-acting TSH in blood drawn from many thyrotoxic patients ( Adams, 1958 ).

Of particular importance is the study of the actions of drugs in this respect.

Religion at its best is out in front, ever beckoning and leading on, and, as Lippman put it, `` mobilizing all man's scattered energies in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance ''.

Because of its importance, and because the lack of price competition is well recognized, the industry is under considerable public pressure not to raise its price any more than could be justified by cost increases.

This is a problem, but we are not divided over its importance or by its existence.

The answer the authors give to it, therefore, is of supreme importance.

Technique pure and simple, rendition, is not of major importance, but it is interesting that Parker, following Lester Young, was one of the leaders of the so-called saxophone revolution.