Word: acidity
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...corner, he slyly inserts the serpentine curve of a highway encroaching on the majestic landscape. Elizabeth Peyton’s “Queen Elizabeth II with Her Dogs at Balmoral” (2002) is a small light-hearted scene painted in large, broad strokes and dominated by an acid, neon green background...
...think rape, battery, pornography and prostitution. And in other countries, female genital mutilation and acid burning of women. In Pakistan, for example, when men want revenge on other men, they will rape the women who are seen to belong to other men. And they will cut off the noses of those women. So all of those kinds of disfigurement and humiliation and sadism, all of those things are the issues that we have to deal with in the coming decade. We just have to. Because if we don’t, women have nothing...
...Thursday self. This is Sunday night self talking. When you read this letter, your thesis will be nothing more than a hangover and a bunch of (now useless) acid-free paper. I’m sure you’ve been celebrating like crazy since Wednesday afternoon. Have a few drinks for me but, please, stay away from Sambuca. And if a bartender tells you to stop dancing on his tables, obey him without getting belligerent. Also, I hope you didn’t yak all over your boyfriend’s sheets last night. He just washed them...
...attacked a train in Godhra, Gujarat, and killed Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya. In its first test of lynch-mob politics, the government of Vajpayee in New Delhi failed, while the BJP administration in Gujarat could barely conceal its support for those mobs. Paradoxically, Muslim fundamentalists, like the hectoring, acid-tongued Syed Shahabuddin, created a platform for the Hindu resurgence in the 1980s with their virulent and purposeless rhetoric. Their successors in 2002 have provided Hindu fanaticism with another cause célèbre. Sadly, in the darker shades of India's patchwork history still lie the present...
...China, which according to ban receives nearly 90% of America's castoffs, recycling is a crude process carried out in places like Guiyu by tens of thousands of peasants equipped with the most rudimentary of tools. Components must be laboriously broken apart by hand. Some are dipped in acid baths to leach out precious metals, while the plastic covering on wiring is sometimes burned away to free the copper underneath...