Word: chins
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...woman striding toward the viewer. Her hourglass figure—white with a shimmering black dress on a black background—drips with sensuality reality can never deliver. Next page: she is wrapped in only a sheet, he’s naked and wiping the booze off his chin. The rectangular text blocks say everything we all dream: “I’m staring at a goddess. She’s telling me she wants me. She sounds like she means it.” Two pages later the woman is dead and dirty cops are charging...
LaRue raised his chin higher and slowly rotated his head, sweeping the audience...
...China. Six hundred years later, the Mediterranean was literally the center of the world, and the island now called Sri Lanka occupied the eastern half of the Red Sea. In the 1660s, the Mekong River, along with the Yangtze and the Salween, dangled like scraggly chin hairs from a Tibetan lake roughly the size of Taiwan. Or so it appeared on the most accurate European map from each of these eras...
...circles of ink that make up a newspaper or magazine photograph. In Portrait of My Dead Brother, an imaginary portrait of the real brother who died a few months before Dali was born, the dots mutate into a bird emerging from his head and ranks of soldiers at his chin. Images of struggle and flight, they match Dali's effort to come to terms with a ghostly brother whose name he was given. Then there's The Sistine Madonna, in which a detail of Raphael's Sistine Madonna is made to appear within a massive close-up of a human...
...Straw ’07 enters as the epitome of majesty, Allegro Maestoso. Her performance is much more lively, almost frantic—but it is similar to Altenburg’s in that it seems as though she barely puts forth any effort at all. Lauren E. Chin ’08 ends the piece as Allegro Apassionato; this part is wistful and ardent, and Chin plays it with admirable minimalism...