Word: doorknob
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...time a doorknob turned, we all turned around in anticipation," said Schreiber, who is a Crimson editor...
...years ago when she felt a tingling in her right pinky. Not knowing what caused it, Halper kept right on typing. Within half an hour her right hand and arm were numb. In less than a month, she was effectively disabled on both sides -- unable to turn a doorknob, tie her shoelaces, button her clothes or brush her teeth without excruciating pain...
...people simply melted away. This doesn't mean that his landscapes are more "expressive," only that they radiate a greater sense of freedom. "The presence in a painting," he once wrote, "is like the presence a child feels and recognizes in things and the way they relate, like a doorknob, the slant of a roof . . . Art does not succeed by compelling you to like it, but by making you feel this presence in it. . . ((which)) can be impersonal." There is enough of this "presence" in Porter's work to place it among the finest landscape painting ever done...
...natural in a democracy for people to worry most about the influence they cannot see -- which helps explain the uproar when their worst suspicions are confirmed by what they do see. Some commentators went off like a cheap car alarm when Rosalynn Carter's fingers grazed the doorknob of the Cabinet room. Columnists conjured up Lady Macbeth when Nancy Reagan introduced policy-by- horoscope, or when she nudged her husband at a press conference on the hostages and urgently whispered, "Tell them you're doing the best...
...jittery and develops sharp mood swings. You suspect he may be using drugs; he denies it. What to do? The question now has a chemical answer: slip into his bedroom when he is away, brandishing a spray can of Drug Alert. Wipe off his study desk, dresser top or doorknob with a clean white cloth or paper towel. Then zap the cloth or paper with spray. If a reddish- brown or turquoise stain appears, your son may be a liar...