"That's what you do – you come bearing gifts," explains Rinaldi, who describes the present as a gesture of goodwill.
The company will present "A Simple Gesture," a program of both new and older pieces set to works by Chopin, in celebration of the composer's two-hundredth birthday.
Presented as a gesture of French-American solidarity, a memorial concert to honor the memory of Sept. 11 victims and express support for their families and friends is to be held at 8 p.m. Monday at the Church of St . Ignatius Loyola Park Avenue and 85th Street.
Just as Petit's leisurely stroll between the Twin Towers is superimposed against an audacious act of a very different sort that would take place there 27 years later, Alcock and Brown's crossing is presented as a gesture of symbolic postwar decommissioning.
You can see this at play with the hot dog: the sandwich and sausage were both invented elsewhere, so to celebrate them separately as uniquely American on America's day of independence would present an empty gesture, immediately undermined by the tools used to make it.
There was one modest note of progress: the ministers agreed that Iraq would be included in future gatherings of the states present on Monday — a gesture Ms. Rice called "a very good step forward for the reintegration of Iraq into regional affairs".
To establish a stable communication way for these disabled people, this paper presents an eye gesture perception system based on Electrooculography (EOG).
On September 23rd Gordon Brown, the prime minister, announced that the fleet of four could be cut to three.The statement came just before a meeting of the UN Security Council on bolstering the world's non-proliferation regime, at which Mr Brown was due to present the move as a gesture towards disarmament (there is no word on whether he plans to reduce Britain's 160 warheads too).
"We have a couple of ideas on the floor if they can make it," including adding performances of "Zone of Silence," another of the troupe's works, and having American theater and film celebrities present at shows as a gesture of support.
To pass social muster, Elle presented the haircut as a gesture for charity: to raise money for a children's hospital, her daughter offered to get a Mohawk.
