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...Gnat that had been buzzing about the head of the Bull, at length settling himself down upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding him, "but if," says he, "my weight at all inconveniences you, pray say so and I will be off in a moment." "Oh, never trouble your hand about that," says the Bull, "for 'tis all to me whether you go or stay; and, to say the truth. I did not know you were there...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Yale hates Harvard; Harvard doesn't care | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...gnat-size island profits by taking potshots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grenada: Revolution in the Shade | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...think we started out winning and let up," Cheng said after the deciding fifth set, "We would come out strong, but like a little gnat always pestering, MIT whittled away our leads...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spikers Take a Tough Defeat at MIT, Aim to Bounce Back by Ivy Tourney | 10/20/1982 | See Source »

...cross and a moon raining blood on Golgotha), are not meant to be "imaginative" in any arbitrary way, though they are deeply expressive. Their aim is to bear witness, to teach. Sometimes they do it in oddly naive ways: Pierce's carving of one person straining at a gnat while another literally swallows a camel, the beast halfway down his throat, comes out of the same impulses that drove the Romanesque carvers at Vezelay or Autun to their didactic grotesqueries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Finale for the Fantastical | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...state's most annoying insect, the California Cute-Fly, which gathers in swarms at art schools and among the hills of Marin County. Quaintness, a whiff of sinsemilla, weaknesses of the bone structure, a pervasive reek of the petted ego-such are the main signs of this gnat's attack, coupled with the hermetic babblings which, on that coastal paradise of the half-blown mind, stand in for Imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Molding the Human Clay | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

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