Word: absently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stories. Originally published individually in magazines, sometimes under other titles, the stories contain a surprisingly strong amount of thematic cohesion. With a few exceptions, the tales each sport an intelligent but dissatisfied heroine, an almost fetish-like interest for said heroine, and a mired or low-key or entirely absent climax...
...sense, I wanted my crucifix to be my excuse, my reason for not getting the subtle jokes and for keeping to myself in the film discussions that followed the screening. At the last minute, I thought better of advertising my Catholicism so conspicuously, yet I remained absent of any outward signs of Judaism. I expected at best a stiff welcome and a stiff goodbye from festival-goers who could sense that I was an unwanted day tripper into a culture that was theirs alone...
...learned from these cautionary tales. There are a few things you can do to protect yourself. Screen potential guests on the basis of hygiene (e.g. does she bring her own soap or shampoo?) and sociopathic tendencies. When a nightmare guest does take over the room, stay tolerant by staying absent. Above all, be very, very cautious upon hearing the disclaimer "I don't really know her that well." There is truth to the old saying that houseguests, like fish, start to stink after three days. Some of them arrive rotten...
...projecting a slowdown in our sales." The domestic retailers to which Supreme International sells do not seem alarmed. If anything, the Asian debacle is working to their advantage: Feldenkreis, who buys 85% of his clothing and raw materials from Asia, says the crisis there has actually reduced his costs. Absent traditional warning signs, what is he supposed...
Benton became a surrogate big daddy to replace Pollock's own woundingly absent father. Thus the future avant-gardist had for a mentor a man who hated abstract art. But when Pollock came under Benton's tutelage, he wasn't aiming at abstraction. Benton's way of composing, with its heftily twisting figures and buckling, scoop-and-bump space, was based on 16th century Mannerism--Midwestern El Greco and Tintoretto; he even adapted the Mannerist device of reducing the figures to geometrical dolls, sometimes modeling them in clay. This vehemence, locked up as a system, appealed to Pollock...