Word: basketfuls
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...Puryear's shapes come out of several parallel worlds of form, which, when prolonged, actually do meet. One is industrial--but "obsolete" industrial: the vigorous and noble shapes of what are now antique technologies, such as the carved wooden forms once created by casting patternmakers. Another is folk technology: basket weaving, canoe building, the construction of tents, yurts and kites. (Puryear had some conventional art-school training at Catholic University of America in Washington in the early '60s, but he also worked with African carpenters in a remote village in Sierra Leone as part of a Peace Corps program...
...ranch dressing in order to save a few dollars at Star Market. Same goes for bread—committing to finishing an entire loaf of wheat bread without getting sick of its discolored brown and grainy consistency reminds me of how thankful I should be for the bread basket in Cabot, which is itself notoriously understocked. I now treasure the opportunity during the school year when I could choose between an English muffin and cinnamon raisin bread without having to buy entire packages of each...
...unhappy task of informing Louis Freeh about the eleventh-hour discovery of a few thousand stray documents in the McVeigh case. We remarked that they didn't look too bloody for a couple of guys who had been at ground zero when the Director went off like a bushel basket of grenades...
...actions of the story as from the portrayal of those actions. A typical moment goes like this: in the midst of Nathan explaining his mother's deterioration Richard bends over, saying, "Nathan..." Grabbing a blob in the grass, he continues saying, "...you dropped a sock." Nathan, with laundry basket in hand, takes the sock and says, "Thanks." This seemingly pointless, interfering sequence could be mistaken for a waste of three panels. But really it's a gift; an act of artistic generosity...
...even more open to reexamining measures (such as the ABM treaty) that had been designed for a bipolar world. But the Europeans are insisting that the baby not be thrown out with the bathwater. They're saying we can't put all our eggs in the missile defense basket - there needs to be a new framework of multilateral strategic treaties to address the new proliferation dangers...