Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pencil, laid them over the textured surface, and scribbled away -as many a child has done over a penny on many a boring day. Allied to this was Ernst's use of paint sponged and knifed on a canvas, with the images it suggested later sharpened with a brush. Figure-Mythological Woman was produced in just such...
...Theater Center, then, in the basement of the Old West Church where the stage seems to merge with the seating arrangements, the intimacy is a success. There is a special element in this play that cries out for empathy, and it is fitting that the actors brush the knees of those sitting in the front row. The Chairs, which was first produced in 1952--a few months before Beckett's Waiting for Godot--depends upon this kind of closeness because there is a dream audience in the action of the play. People are assembled to hear a message...
...prison in Hanoi, installed in a room about 15 by 15 ft., furnished with two desks and a wooden plank bed with a boarded-up window. There he was to spend the first 36 days in solitary confinement. He was immediately issued personal supplies-a cup, toothpaste, tooth brush, shirts, trousers, blankets, a teapot. The food was opulent enough by P.O.W. standards-sweet milk and half a loaf of bread in the morning, thick potato or cabbage soup for lunch, along with soybean cakes, or fish cakes, and sometimes a ration of pork. Later in the day a third meal...
More often, according to Lifton, a brush with death has long-lasting effects because it brings the survivor face to face with his own mortality, especially with the possibility of "premature death and unfulfilled life." Many survivors remain forever "in thrall to their death encounter." For some, the "death spell" takes the form of "fascination with scenes of death and devastation." Others grieve because they have lost their "innocence of death...
...blind wife. Gardner explores everything with love and forbearance, like an old-fashioned novelist who has forgotten he must compete with television, sex books and the Good Life for the raddled reader's attention. No matter. Raddled or not, readers should ignore the flaws. Swallow the magic apples. Brush up on terza rima (to identify those snippets of The Inferno that Gardner can't keep from including). Borrow a French dictionary (to translate Gardner's morsels of French). But press on at all costs to the end. The masterpiece to be found there is Clumly...