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straddle

[strad-l] / ˈstræd l /
VERB
bestride
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VERB
sit or stand on both sides
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The writer and director Tina Satter is another artist who revels in the strange, though her work with Half Straddle often twins the bizarre with the gauzy familiarity of a slumber party.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2017

During his tenure, he has transformed the Playhouse and the building’s two smaller theaters from rental locations to spaces that sponsor performance innovators like Taylor Mac, Richard Maxwell, Half Straddle and Les Frères Corbusier.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2015

Actually, to make sense of this production from Ms. Satter’s Half Straddle company, you probably need to have made a study of Chekhov’s life and letters too.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2013

That Saturday morning, Atwater told Bush he was dead even in the polls and that only the "Straddle" ad would put him over the top.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor was I less reserved with Straddle, whom I in person reproached for misrepresenting to me the character of Strutwell, which I did not scruple to aver was infamous in every respect.

From The Adventures of Roderick Random by Smollett, T. (Tobias)




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