In fall they prepare the fields they will plant the next spring — breaking up the ground and picking up rocks, a job that must be done by hand, not by machine, in a bent-over walk behind a slow-moving plow.
In "Songook," which takes a serious turn after playful beginnings, she moves with little bent-kneed walks, slow-motion running steps and subtle contractions of the torso.
Before and after, they move with indeterminate small gestures and bent-legged walks, often close to the whitewashed brick walls of the performance space.
But it does seem to me that the rest of Spain is hell-bent on walking away with the wrong lesson.
The dancing is strenuous and exacting, and Ms. Guillem gives it heart and soul, but the choreography is thin, a continuous barrage of bent-kneed walking and kicking and with the awkward cartoon gestures and stylized gaucherie that constitute Mr. Ek's style.
And thus, the movement behavior of pedestrians is divided into three stages: normal walk, bent-over walk, and crawl.
He was tall but bent — a man walking into the wind.
Mr. Nuon Chea, now a frail, bent man who walks with a cane and favors large dark glasses, has repeatedly expressed his personal innocence and his disdain for the slowly unfolding judicial process.
Two men who the police believe were bent on robbery walked into a Brooklyn barbershop late Thursday night after it had closed and shot the owner and his brother, critically wounding both men, the authorities said yesterday.
