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"Now, lift !" The whole sequence has an archetypal enchantment, made even more savory by its naughty underpinnings: The aging master directs his prima ballerina in a sacred dance to larceny.
The liberal arts need not be regarded as ends in themselves--that is, to produce artists, writers, and other practitioners--but to create well-rounded human beings who are passing familiar, if only subconsciously, with the underpinnings of their society based on the bedrock of their culture.
Today, its main claim to fame is that it provided its owners, Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the financial underpinnings of a far greater publishing venture, Random House.
For another, the normative underpinnings of popular measures of health inequality should be further clarified.
For each one of them the dictionary was a site of political struggle clearly signifying ideological underpinnings.