Word: caking
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...paint his way through years of difficulty. The earliest paintings included in the show are a whole room full of small works which look like abstract expressionist paintings, but were executed by building up the surface as much as three inches with spackle. The effect is that of stale cake frosting, limited to three colors -- charcoal, sickly pink, and dirty white -- knifed or squeezed onto the canvas. The paintings suggest parody of the rough, sculptural brush work of De Kooning, at the same time evidencing an interest in the ease with which forms advance from the canvas as well...
...cake or cheese or fish or less meat or much less meat or less everything or plant gardens or whatever. What do those people eat who keep telling us what to eat? With their incomes, it must be more than fish and chips...
...high price of steak Leaves this to be said: Most eaters of cake Have plenty of bread...
...charges tried to get him sacked after he failed to back them in a rent strike, Ustinov accused them of political chicanery, deceit and cynicism. "I sometimes see England as an enormous nest with lots of little birds all opening their mouths for a piece of the cake," said the tireder, wiser rector. When his term expires this year, he added, he will not run again...
...crowds the apartment she shares with Wordsworth with souvenirs of her continental high life, but they give it only a faded ratty elegance. Her dresser-gleams with mirrors, powder jars and pin bowls; glass ornaments flash ever-where--curlicue knicknacks, gold cherubs, and a chandelier like an overturned wedding cake, are cheap reminders of now hollow dreams. For at seventy, she is unmarried, childless, and penniless, and the mauve colored gauze through which she views her world cannot protect her from...