Word: enveloping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressure lend a delicacy to the face, which seems to emerge quietly from the paper. A less representational series of pen and ink drawings are devoted to the female form in relation to its surroundings. In Figure in Interior the human body is absorbed by bold black strokes that envelop it. The woman in Untitled, 1967, is swept up in the rhythm of the lines as one might be carried off by a hurricane...
This year, however, he seized control of the Rules Committee by insisting that Representatives loyal to him be named to it. That made him the first Speaker in almost 40 years with absolute control of the House's legislative agenda. Then, as crises began to envelop the presidency and vice presidency, he quietly ordered the House parliamentarian and legal experts to study how the House should proceed, if the holder of either office resigned or had to be impeached. As a result, the House was able to begin action on Ford's nomination and Nixon's possible...
...ROUTE 1, NEAR EASTPORT, MAINE--U.S. Route 1 is a narrow, two-lane asphalt highway, winding its way through Washington County in eastern Maine. The leaves on the trees by the side of the road are tipped with reddish orange as the first touches of autumn begin to envelop the county, even now at the end of August...
...planet. At the same time, Venus' spin would have been greatly retarded and eventually reversed; the planet's surface would also have become searingly hot from the friction of the tidal movements, and volcanoes would have erupted-giving off the thick clouds of gases that still envelop Venus. Finally, after about 100 years, the moon would have come crashing into Venus, leaving the slow, backward spin as the legacy of a primordial celestial drama...
...diabolical editor ("Leper licker," Shrike calls him. "Still more swollen Mussolini of the soul"). Thinking to help, Miss Lonelyhearts arranges to meet one of his correspondents, a woman with a crippled husband. She rapes him. In the last scene, "his identification with God complete," Miss Lonelyhearts tries to envelop in cosmic pity the crippled husband-who seems to stand for long-suffering humanity. Terrified, the cripple shoots him dead...