With Guston, you feel you are about to be embraced in a drunken bear-hug.
Downstairs in the press dining room, he was embraced in a bear hug by Ken Singleton, his YES colleague.
"Performance art is being embraced in a whole new way," said Philip Bither, the senior curator of performing arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Tourism in Colombia is increasing as the country has become safer, and camping has recently been embraced in a big way.
"I am hoping the next president, whoever he or she is, will embrace our blueprint, which was embraced in a bipartisan way, and will use that as their mark to scale and grow [volunteering]," she says.
Across the Thames, at the Donmar Warehouse, those same clichés are being embraced in a bear hug in "Red," John Logan's two-character work about the painter Mark Rothko, directed by Michael Grandage.
They have become a phenomenon, finding a place in a postpolitically correct world in which racial and ethnic stereotypes are being embraced in a self-consciously humorous way precisely to subvert them.
On one level you can understand why – in a world where wraith-like thinness in actresses is revered, Hendricks is full-blooded proof that gorgeousness can exist, and be embraced, in a different construct.
Démarche, however — a "step" or diplomatic initiative — is a word likely to be embraced in a new administration, especially since the once-voguish initiative has had such a long run.
Photograph: AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq Photograph: Musadeq Sadeq/AP Whilst Ensler's message of defiance against violence resonates strongly, her dictum to dance as a means of protest has not been embraced in a conservative, Muslim country where public images and depictions of women performing is frowned upon.
