Word: boiles
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...find them similar in subject matter, the pursuance of pleasure, and in color and arrangement. I do not suggest that this comparison is more than a far-fetched coincidence as the action shown in both cases is by no means identical. But one cannot deny that both boil down to the same idea: the important role that pleasure plays in the life...
...foie gras, were amiable enough. "This should not take too long," Prince Souvanna explained, puffing on a big cigar. "Long conferences have no charm, and charm is one of the ingredients of life, at least among Laotians." The charm was slightly marred for Souvanna by acute discomfort from a boil so located as to make prolonged sitting painful (he skipped one session...
...couldn't get much farther away from himself than Pal's lost Atlantis. The dress and decor are a sumptuous mishmash of Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Assyrian, Mayan, Egyptian. Tartar, and Park Avenue highrise. Cauldrons boil, priests prophesy, volcanoes belch, lava pours, mountains move, buildings crumble, tidal waves tumble, and death-ray guns pulverize people and ships. The slaves in the House of Fear are turned into beasts of burden at the behest of a crystal-twirling caliph: "Now you will close your eyes. When you are commanded to open them, you will be a bull"-or a boar...
...woman hardly made an appearance at all. In many canvases the once meticulous Miró had left hairs from his brushes imbedded in the paint. What did all this splatter and splutter mean? Plainly, the new Miró was mad at the world, and he was letting his emotions boil over. "I used crayon," says he of some thin colored lines in one painting, "because it was more nervous, Pam! Pam! Pam! Pam! Like a knife!" Commented the weekly France-Observateur sadly: "Disappointed spirits will conclude that this...
...essay on "The Late Benjamin Franklin" there occurs the following reminiscence: "When I was a child I had to boil soap, notwithstanding my father was wealthy, and I had to get up early and study geometry at breakfast, and peddle my own poetry and do everything just as Franklin did, in the solemn hope that I would be a Franklin some day. And here...