Word: brushed
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...blade slot made me think - if you will excuse these featherweight reflections - about the old rituals. Long ago, when men wore hats, shaving was a far more serious and ceremonial business than it is now. I keep to some of the old forms. I use a shaving brush, for example...
...mentality that made them successful businessmen, in fact, may be making them rotten ranchers. "All the time I hear they want to restore to the native habitat with buffalo and bluebonnets," says Neil Wilkins, a wildlife biologist at A&M. "They call and say, 'I've already cleared the brush, now what?'" Of course, they have destroyed the very habitat that attracted wildlife. "These people are used to running corporations, and, by gosh, they want to see some changes fast," says Wilkins. "They make sure some dirt gets pushed around, and more often than not it results in something...
...stop off at Bert Vaux's Linguistics 80: "Dialectics of English," for a brush with a topic most high schools rarely mention. Though the class is notoriously simple and often taken as an elective, Vaux is a widely-known lecturer who manages to pulls in hundreds for his fall core class, Social Analysis 34: "The Knowledge of Language...
...arguments and powers of persuasion as strong as he and Rove pretend, his tax bill would be law. But after more than 20 road trips to pressure Senators to support it, Bush was unable to turn a single vote his way. Again, Rove can paint with a broad brush. When Bush came to Washington, no one thought Congress would support such a large tax cut. If he gets 80 percent of what he wanted, that's enough to call...
...most visually exciting pieces is entitled “Midnight Snack,” a large acrylic and collage on canvas. The viewer is immediately drawn into the piece by its bold use of raw color and vibrant brush strokes. One of the few recognizable shapes in this painting is the female form in a large cooking pot. This image could be seen as a strong social statement that the artist is trying to make, but the abstraction of the piece leaves these questions ambigious...