"The Watermelon Seed," by Greg Pizzoli, has a juicy premise posed as a question: "Have you ever swallowed a seed?" The fear of swallowing something you're not supposed to has a rich tradition in children's song and literature (flies, bubblegum) and in real life.
Such were the premises posed by the choreographer Claire Porter at the Ailey Citigroup Theater on Wednesday night as part of the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival.
"EMC has concluded that concealed handguns on school premises pose a heightened liability risk," the company wrote in a letter in 2013.
Most Christian mystic-poets, from Dante to George Herbert, have accepted unworldliness as at least a poetic premise, or pose: our community of believers in here, your bad world out there.
Given that premise, we posed the question: Which of these predominates in humans?
In theory, these types of premises may pose the greatest risk for disease transmission due to large numbers of horses at the same site owned and cared for by different people.
His first picture as director, The Major and the Minor (1942), was a comedy with the daring premise of Ginger Rogers posing as a child to get a reduced railway ticket and becoming the toast of the schoolboys at a military academy and the Lolita-like object of desire for the academy's senior officer, Ray Milland.
Secondly, on the premise of keeping correct capture pose, a novel optimization factor in null space is designed to minimize base attitude disturbance and ensure that the joint angles do not exceed their limits simultaneously.
The basic premise for the instrument development posed by the authors is that teachers' beliefs about the nature of science and of the teaching and learning of science serve as a filter for, and thus strongly influence how they enact, reform-based curricula in their classrooms.
WASHINGTON — Long before he announced his presidential run this year, Newt Gingrich had become the most prominent American politician to embrace an alarming premise: that Shariah, or Islamic law, poses a threat to the United States as grave as or graver than terrorism.
