Word: glazes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intense symbolism of the play deteriorates into absurd melodrama; the bad attempts at making the bizarre characters seem attractive are irritating; and the very frustration of watching their slow descent into damnation makes your eyes glaze over...
...taken over succeeding narrations. Lestat is something of a windbag, alternately luxuriating in the dark perfection of his sin and then writhing in rather stagey shame for his moral awfulness. This foppish introspection fogs the early chapters of the present novel. But just before the reader's eyes glaze over, the willful and impulsive Lestat tangles with a mortal con man whose extraordinary psychic powers let him cheat the vampire out of his demonic, enormously powerful body...
...build momentum, shimmer and swirl with bittersweet melodies and riffs that gather rather than hook. Nightswimming, which circles around a cascading piano part, and Find the River, which resonates with a yearning for primordial purity, have the wistful gravity of old snapshots, fleeting moments frozen in the amber glaze of memory...
Every student has stayed up late at one time or another to do a problem set, finish a paper, or even go to a party in the Currier "Ten Man." Somewhere around the 16th waking hour, your eyes start to glaze and your attention span evaporates. But going to sleep would mean kissing your grade, or your date, good...
Right from the start, Voulkos -- the father figure of California pottery at the time and for decades thereafter -- inspired Price to break the rules, and the most binding of these was the integrity of the glaze: all color on a ceramic object had to come either from the clay itself or from the glazes that, through firing, were bonded to it. But this was California, the territory of outlaw artificial color, metal flake, Duco gloss, candy stripes, epoxy bases. Price didn't go for the mass and roughness of Voulkos' work; he wanted a more concise style of object, perverse...