Word: bein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Gallery in London and seen his painting of The Ambassadors - two wary young traders amid their pellucid clutter of emblematic objects, with an anamorphic blur of a skull floating strangely across the inlaid floor -knows that at once. Together with his older contemporary, Albrecht Dürer, Hol bein represents the point at which German painting shook clear of its Gothic past and its folk ties, entering and interpreting the great Renaissance streams of power and trade, be coming a primary instrument of self-recognition for a new Europe...
...culturally 'lightened too. We be tukin' hard courses in many subjects, like Afro-Am Studies, Women's Studies, and Policy Studies. And who be mouthin' 'bout us not bein' good read? I be practicly knowin' Roots cova to cova...
...virulent wordplay abounded. "I don't wanna be your lover--I just wanna be your victim," Elvis sputtered in his souped-up homage to whacking-off that he not-so-subtly dubbed "The Beat." And he bragged in "Lipstick Vogue," "Sometimes I almost feel...just like a human bein...
...Playboy magazine-and course they know all 'bout bein' clean and dirty at the same time-they ran a story on Edna's Ranch by a fat, bearded journalist called Larry L. King. Larry's a good ole Texas boy, and he was none too happy seein' one of the state's noblest traditions tore down, like they'd turned the Alamo into a soccer stadium. So he visited La Grange and wrote it all up. Called it "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
...never claimed to be a sexual athlete; that was for the ladies of the demimonde," write Gold and Fizdale. "Still, she took it for granted that not only was her husband in love with her, but so, more or less, were all his friends. It was the thing, to bein love with Misia ... She had tremendous allure in the French meaning of the word-a sense of how to carry herself with style ... she listened attentively and responded with enthusiasm, candor and an independence of judgment startling in one so young. Her speech was salted with irony and peppered with...