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...actually built a house illustrating his alarming, thrilling ideas in a Philadelphia suburb, for the perfect client: his well-to-do socialist mother. As with much of his work since, he took the debased, muddled classical references residually present in most suburban houses and made them self- conscious, explicit, arch. The house was two decades ahead of its time. Imagine a Pop artwork from 1945, or a rap recording from...
These days, both are in killer mode, training as much as six hours a day. "Tilt it more! Arch your back!" Dean prods them during workouts in Oberstdorf. Sometimes the sessions are brutal. "I'm glad my mother isn't watching," Isabelle says. "We step on each other's feet, cut our hands. Paul was hospitalized once with a nose hemorrhage." Isabelle's melodramatic description may be part of the Duchesnays' Olympic psych-up. As front runners, they have to work all the harder to maintain the diehard, embattled anxiety they will be relying on to spin their dreams...
Kerrey's also a mean-spirited Japan basher, an arch-protectionist and a supporter of massive and terribly inefficient farm subsidies. There's nothing charming about any of this. Despite his touchy-feely reputation, these views are cold, calculated politics designed to get the Gephardt vote and neutralize Harkin. Too bad the U.S. cannot afford to fight a trade war with Japan--not since the American share of world trade has declined by one-third in the last 20 years...
...comfortable, quick-drying innovation is fitted with a variable web of beltings, tethers and buckles that snugly grip the toes and the ankle while keeping the foot from sliding back and forth. A tough rubber sole and a high arch take the off-road punishment expected by hikers and mountain climbers; hot colors and a high-tech look are now attracting buyers who want to wear what the rugged, back-to-nature types swear by. "They're all I wear when it's warm," says Dale Covington, who works at the Trailhead, a Missoula, Mont., outfitter, and owns two pairs...
...particular political symbolism from the text, and his harmless, rather charmless tonal score simply galumphs forgettably along. Far more Ubu-like are the sets and costumes by artist Roland Topor, which achieve startling new depths of vulgarity through their persistent evocation of feces and entrails. Is a triumphal arch crowned by a defecating man waving toilet paper black humor, or does it go beyond post-funny and into the realm of merely disgusting...