Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gracefully, through some dethpickable humiliation. Droopy dog would corral a wolf felon by employing the emotional minimalism of a Buster Keaton on Quaaludes. Maybe there'd be an early Disney cartoon for more refined preteen appetites. And then, on with the main attraction! The feature was often a broken-down B-minus monster movie, and pretty much an aesthetic anticlimax after the seven-minute masterpieces that opened the show. At the time, of course, nobody figured to hang cartoons in a museum. Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and the Disney elves were considered ghetto artisans then, not the Leonardos of cinema...
Again the hands plunge down, bringing up more gore and then a tubular organ, which the bearded man stares at momentarily. "Oh, no! That doesn't come out," he apologizes, his eyes suddenly twinkling, and pushes it back into the body. The spell is broken and the audience roars, then titters nervously as he proceeds to remove additional gore. Finally he wipes away the blood, revealing an expanse of unbroken, unscarred skin...
...black chess pieces -- king and queen, hulking monoliths more than 9 1/2 ft. high, and a whimsical army of knights, bishops, rooks and pawns, all carved and constructed from basalt. This brittle volcanic rock is too hard to chisel cleanly; it can only be sawed or broken like a flint. Corbero revels in the risks of breaking it. Each piece of basalt becomes a found object -- altered, but bearing a memory of the raw look it had in the quarry...
...child was not critically injured--he was treated and released from a hospital the same day for a broken wrist, fractured skull, and head and facial injuries--and the University paid for all medical expenses. But the accident left Carpenter staff angry and spurred the University to reexamine its campus safety procedures...
SOMEHOW, Bush is trying to make Dukakis and other Democrats accountable for Wright's actions. But it's not a question of whether Dukakis or any other Democratic candidate has any ties to Wright. The simple fact of the matter is that Wright has not broken any federal laws. He has only engaged in some good old-fashioned pork-barrelling...