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...would be safe to say that a strong anal-complex is evident here. Agains and again Joyce talks of his wife's underwear, urging her at one point to buy some "whorish drawers...and also discolor them just a little behind." His obvious pleasure with his wife's propensity for gushing flatus in the act of union is not altogether new to Joyce's readers. Bloom saw the "mellow yellow smellow mellons" of Molly's rump as a kind of ultimate healer of all his tensions, of his conflicting sense of envy, jealousy, abnegation, and equanimity, because they were "insusceptible...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Swine Before Pearls | 11/14/1975 | See Source »

...guard it, stroke it, hide it from the public." A special makeup man in scuba gear would plunge into the ocean to add more blood to Bruce's teeth and gums or administer a touch-up to his tender plastic tissue. Bruce's skin tended to discolor and deteriorate in the salt water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUMMER OF THE SHARK | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

...Cleaning. The unwholesome mess that U.S. citizens and corporations spew into that great sewer in the sky costs them dearly-$11 billion a year in property damage alone, according to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Air pollutants abrade, corrode, tarnish, soil, erode, crack, weaken and discolor materials of all varieties. Steel corrodes from two to four times as fast in urban and indus trial regions as in rural areas, where much less sulphur-bearing coal and oil are burned. The erosion of some stone statuary and buildings is also greatly speeded by high concentrations of sulphur oxides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecology: Menace in the Skies | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Freedman emphasized that haste is of extreme importance in such work. If stains are allowed to dry, they may permanently discolor an object...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Helps to Restore Flood-Stained Italian Art | 11/12/1966 | See Source »

...trouble was twofold: they had neither chosen too wisely nor performed too well. Playing Chekhov in another language must always discolor him a little; and to offer U.S. audiences a perceptibly British version of Chekhov is to discolor him further. Moreover, the reserved and chin-up British are not entirely at home with the soul and the samovar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Old Vic: Part II | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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