Word: brushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wharf, a sun-drenched path or a perfectly motionless pond. Thick paint and broad strokes complete his portrayal of utter screnity through the heaviness and fixity of the surface texture of his canvases. Figures are rendered almost motionless, defined only by a few cursory passes of his brush, while those figures standing on a path or in a park as if on a stroll end up pasted to the canvas-like statuettes, unable to draw up the anchor of layered oil that bonds them to their station in Farndon's visual space...
...administration. Or, I might wonder if the artist unintentionally used Dean Epps in this sexual cartoon because of all the beliefs surrounding the sexual prowess of the Black male in American society. I could even suggest that, instead of it being a Freudian slip of the brush (pen), the Lampoon artists and the board blatantly used a racial stereotype, knowing its offensive ability...
...right pinky. Not knowing what caused it, Halper kept right on typing. Within half an hour her right hand and arm were numb. In less than a month, she was effectively disabled on both sides -- unable to turn a doorknob, tie her shoelaces, button her clothes or brush her teeth without excruciating pain...
Scores of students were forced to take showers and brush their teeth elsewhere. Most said they were a bit annoyed, but some found humor in their alternative attempts to maintain hygiene...
Though the mission was saved, Mir's brush with disaster fanned doubts about the fitness of Russia's space program. That is of no small concern to the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan, which have formed a partnership with Russia to build a new space station. In the first phase of the venture, the Europeans are scheduled to put an astronaut on Mir in October, and an American is supposed to go aboard next year...