Word: fruits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years old. I think I've taken care of myself pretty well. I exercise regularly--jogging or swimming for an hour or so three times a week. I eat fairly healthfully--a lot of fruit and vegetables. I have a loving family and a stimulating job. But I am at about the age when human bodies, no matter how well cared for, begin to lose the youthful vitality most of us at one time thought would be with us for the duration. Besides the obvious changes like hair loss and wrinkling, the lungs' capacity declines; joints start to wear...
That Holiday made Strange Fruit, her powerful and disturbing antilynching protest, the centerpiece of her repertoire suggests that her artistic choices were conscious and principled, and--like so much African-American art--perhaps far more nuanced than popular critical reviews have yet revealed...
...authentic ugliness he could carry from one genre to another." Such remarks never bothered him. "I don't create for the critics," Glimp said with his usual brutal whimsy. "I do it for a tiny cult of neurotic admirers who worship me obsessively and bring me offerings of fruit and incense...
...Knopf; the artist demanded more royalties, while Knopf contended that he was not Glimp's publisher. At 86, death came peacefully to this proud virtuoso as he slept at the wheel of his sports car and drove into a tree. But wherever there are tiny, neurotic cultists with fruit and incense, Cranford Glimp's art will live...
Many students chose the juicy taste of the small, round fruit over considerations of what many activists deem inhumane treatment of workers in the fields...