Word: disturbingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still lives are unequivocally the most inventive and mysterious photographs of the exhibition. He retreats from the streets to the kitchen. But his foodstuffs are neither palatable nor tantalizing. Distorted in scale, lit by mysterious sources and seeming almost alive, these photographs disturb as much as they entice. There are no rites of passage into this world of objects. These depart from his earlier, formalist, abstractions: they are abstraction vivified...
...moved into an apartment that was way the other end [of the complex]," Moseley says. "[The center] doesn't disturb me at all. There was a lot of negotiation but eventually they came up with a deal that I considered quite reasonable and an apartment came up that was...actually as far away as you could possibly...
SEXILE, A PRACTICE UNIQUE TO THE college-age set, is the natural result of out-of-control hormones unleashed in N-1 bedrooms. Strategies to prevent the interruption of an intimate moment include blocking the door with a bed, recreating hotel atmosphere with "Do not disturb" signs and draping key articles of clothing across the bedroom door...
...strength of two to move it, an action we perform as seldom as possible." Though only two inches thick, the book's binding drips with metal ornamentation and decorative gilt. Houghton's two copies lie comfortably in custom-made cloth cases, so comfortably, in fact, that librarians hate to disturb them...
...junkie, mostly by prescription; a hedonist, generally by inclination; and a profligate, largely by longing. He wanted to be the naughty boy and the good son both. He carried his collection of police badges with him everywhere, a putative peace officer who loved to disturb the peace. He was afraid of the dark, so he slept in the day, explaining, "I know in the daytime when I go to sleep that it's dark in my room, and I pretend like it's night, but I know it's daytime, and I'm not afraid to fall asleep...