Word: breath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When my mother drank, her breath had a sweetness that I lack the vocabulary to describe ... As I got older, occasionally I would find myself with a woman whose breath had that sweetness that still defies description. I was always sexually aroused by the smell...
Perhaps it might be a good idea to take a deep breath at this stage and point out that the setup for A Son of the Circus is vastly more elaborate than the preceding suggests. Irving has been known to complain, understandably, about reviews of his books that give away the plots and their attendant surprises. He need not worry this time; the new novel is summary-proof...
That made the situation aboard Mir unsettling, to say the least. Cosmonauts Malenchenko, Valeri Poliakov and Talgat Musabayev have been subsisting on supplies left over from earlier missions, including food two years past its expiration date. They've had to drink water recycled from their breath and sweat...
Even so, Castro seems thoroughly in control. The ability of many Cubans to describe harrowing privation and in almost the same breath profess loyalty to Fidel -- or at worst a kind of numb resignation -- is startling. Raise, 31, an engineer, pauses along the Almendares River in western Havana to watch the return of several rafts that had tried to make it across the Straits of Florida but were forced by bad weather to turn back. "These people are out of their minds," he says. "This is a difficult period of the revolution, but I wouldn't even think about doing...
...wrenching desperateness that made "Love in Vain" a slow staple. Luckily, the next song, "I Go Wild," comes to the rescue by managing to pick up a bit of the brashness of the "If You Can't Rock Me." This song also supplies a quick and non incongrous breath of "Gimme Shelter" from Ron Woods' b-bender guitar, two-thirds of the way through...