It is in its various aerial forms the most important shot, the money shot, the shot every talented schoolboy cricketer across the world is currently spending his hours mastering, where once his head might have been bowed in submissive defence.
Like her prose, Penelope Fitzgerald's life has front rooms and back rooms: public places where appearances are maintained and a comic, insouciant hospitality holds sway; and obscurer realms, where the cutlery is rusting and milk has been spilled, heads are bowed in shame, and everything is breaking apart.
The photo itself has been enlarged to just show the bowed, dupatta-covered head of the victim to illustrate articles that are only peripherally related to her case, like this October 16 essay about rape being an unpleasant reminder of the "old India".
Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, said in a statement that the prize was awarded as "recognition to a woman and a man who have not been bowed by fear and intimidation and who have decided to put the fate of their country before their own".
Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament, said at the time: "The award … is a message of solidarity and recognition to a woman and a man who have not been bowed by fear and intimidation and who have decided to put the fate of their country before their own".
"The award … is a message of solidarity and recognition to a woman and a man who have not been bowed by fear and intimidation and who have decided to put the fate of their country before their own," said Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament.
Other tablatures have been used for bowed instruments, such as the viol; for plucked instruments, such as the cittern, guitar, and zither; and also for non-Western instruments, such as the Japanese koto, a type of zither.
Percussive effects in imitation of drumming had been introduced to bowed-string instruments by early in the 17th century.
The McGrath head has never been bowed with worry as President Kennedy's must have been during the Cuban missile crisis or as President George W. Bush's surely was when gas prices briefly dipped below $2 a gallon, weakening key stocks in his trust fund.
Thankfully, residents have not taken been bowed by this outbreak of excessive caution and have simply hung the bunting from windows and shop signs.
