Word: dripping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field of nettles four times during the shooting of Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, until he had a satisfactory take, keeping the blood from multiple scratches hidden from director John Huston. And the kind of actor who in Cape Fear smashed an egg against his bare chest and let it drip unheeded--metaphorical blood this time, from a profoundly wounded psyche--as he proceeded to scare the wits out of Polly Bergen...
Every year about 300 people receive the death sentence in this country and about 35 leave death row--usually with the aid of electricity or an intravenous drip. Most of the arrivals and all the departures since 1976 have been state cases. If McVeigh gets the death penalty, he will be only the 13th federal prisoner sent to death row since 1976. None of the others have yet been executed, a reminder that those aching for McVeigh's death had better stay patient...
Often lost amid the discussion of Harvard's wealth and massive endowment are the University's smaller schools, which are often forced to adopt innovative strategies in order to raise what would only be a drip into the University's colossal tubs...
...most radical departure in postwar American art was undoubtedly Jackson Pollock's drip painting--those skeins and lashes of pigment falling on the canvas with uncanny grace and energy. But his fellow Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning (1904-97) brought into painting a new sense of the contradictions of American culture and made erotic poetry out of them. De Kooning, the "slipping glimpser," as he called himself, was open to a constant stream of momentary impressions: smiles from Camel ads, shoulders from Ingres, pinups and Raphael--high and low, everywhere. In this way he became a bridge to a younger...
...talk of the convention concerned the maudlin tone of the convention speeches. "This isn't a convention," went a common refrain, "it's Queen for a Day." There's no doubt that this year Democrats gave us not only a balloon drop and a confetti drop but a treacle drip of steadily increasing dosage as well. I found myself cheerfully ascending to high dudgeon--until it hit me that we in the television business bear much of the blame for this corruption of public speech...