Word: cage
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...tube furnishings found their way into the stark spaces and barred enclosures of his paintings. You detect them for the first time in the series of paintings he made from the great Velázquez portrait of Pope Innocent X, in which Bacon's flickering white perimeters form a cage for the Pontiff's impotent fury...
...yellow Yugo that strangers mistake for a taxi or carrying Handi Wipes in his pocket. They also like the same music, which can unite the most disparate souls. The big problem is his devotion to Tris, which baffles Norah ("I could floss with that girl"). That's Nick's cage; he's a bit too at home in his misery. He is who he is, until Norah helps him be someone better...
...first half alone, UConn recorded 11 shots and three penalty corners. Before the end of the half, Aird tallied her second goal after Stone left the net to challenge an attempted shot. The forward gathered the ball in front of the net and fired the ball into the cage. The Huskies finished the first half with a close-range goal from forward Bethany Semlear...
...were really ready to just come out hard and finish it,” Stone said. Later in the half, Harvard threatened again and appeared to score when McVeigh sent a ball across the front of the net that was deflected high into the air and poked into the cage by freshman forward Allie Kimmel. The referee ruled that the ball went in off Kimmel’s body and disallowed the goal. The Crimson kept the pressure on, earning four penalty corners and seven shots in the second half. “The second half was definitely stronger...
...unapologetic expression of a woman’s emotion. Over syncopated drums and her own rhythmic guitar playing, Wainwright’s voice, by no means rich or soothing, is like a mezzo-soprano Lucinda Williams. She achingly describes how “there are days when the cage doesn’t seem to open very wide at all,” referring to her own debilitating obsession with a man that has “love in his heart” for his own wife and daughter. However, as the music swells to production levels more typical...