Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ritual dance to the strains of avant-garde rock, the audience is happy to perceive the action on two levels. Those who understand exactly what Artaud meant by his elliptical dialogue appreciate the refined symbolism, while the rest of us can chuckle in relief along with the tongue-in-cheek directors...
...what they say is tongue-in-cheek," said a woman who had been to parties but asked not to be identified. "Nobody's forced to do anything they don't want to do and both men and women are contact with what's going on. There is stuff written on the walls and ceilings so you know what's going...
...think anything was lost by the incident. In some circumstances, it is wrong to turn the other cheek. I was determined not to be Richard Nixon's judge. I had not been a witness to his misdeeds, only to their consequences and to his suffering...
...left hand. His hair falls over his ears, the thin corkscrew curls shiny. His eyes are green, his mustache a pencil line over his lip. His nose looks as if it might have been broken once. There is a black mole the size of a nickel on his right cheek...
...this tongue-in-cheek but highly self-descriptive definition. Walker hints at many of the key issues she addresses in the essays that follow. Womanist Prose is as much about mothers and daughters as it is about American social history: it is as much about race relations as it is about the need to express one's creativity...