Word: elbowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well. One involved LSD: clinicians discovered that people on MAO inhibitors were much less sensitive to the drug than normal. The consensus is that LSD mimics serotonin in the brain and latches onto the same neuronal receptors. With MAO inhibitors keeping more serotonin in circulation, the acid cannot elbow...
...finishing in the box is pure grit," Zotter said. "We're a finesse team and we want everything to look good, to make the perfect shot. We need to do the dirty things, even a poke or an elbow, to get the ball in the goal. We don't always need the pretty goal, it is all the same on paper...
...bank fraud (All Politics) ... Vice-President Al Gore has denied knowledge of campaign finance wrongdoing (TIME Daily)... Big Tobacco increases wholesale cigarette prices nearly 8 percent (TIME Daily) ... Volatile Southeast Asian markets could cause a banking collapse (TIME Daily) ... and your GP may not know his stethascope from his elbow (TIME Daily...
...maxim that hard times pull communities together is that good times let people stray, start their own business, move to a new town not because their job requires it but for a better life, a better school, a better view of the mountains. Our shared national luxury is elbow room, the blessing of wealth and space that allows congregations to split off and build huge, sprawling new churches along the highway, unaffiliated with any denomination, equipped like a high school, catering to a niche in the soul. It accounts for the blinding growth of exurban enclaves, filled with people fleeing...
...using the body of paint to access and encompass the body of the world. To call it abstract, even when it was most so, is to ignore this. In what was probably his finest painting, Excavation, 1950, one sees desire at full stretch: every form carries its physical freight--elbow, groin, folded belly, thigh, slipping and jostling in the paint as though mud wrestling in pigment. De Kooning could find metaphors of energy that none of his contemporaries could rival. And when he carried his "impurity" beyond the decorum of abstraction, as in the great women of the early...