Word: growing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pickup. "And well nourished too," he adds with a gesture toward the deer's six-pointed rack of antlers. "Antlers don't tell you anything about a deer's age. But they'll tell you how well he eats. A deer doesn't grow a rack like that unless he's getting plenty of food...
...cautiously glanced over my shoulder to see who was behind me. I expected that it would probably be one of the loons that you grow accustomed to seeing around Harvard Square, one of those hypersensitive geniuses who, instead of becoming Einsteins, had slipped the other way, taking one too many acid trips back in 1965, and wandering around the Square ever since, babbling stray mathematical formulae on the street corners. Maybe it would even be Dryer Man, the guy with the electric hair who likes to sit on those big industrial dryers in the laundromat...
What if it were true? What if even just a part of it were true? There were so many possibilities, so many ways that such conspiracies could grow in the modern world with the systems of power so unaccountable and so intertwined, not just on the surface but intertwined deeply on many unpredictable levels...
This album is a haunting prophecy in the light of Morrison's alcoholic, drug-shot death, which finally found him at peace in a bathtub in Paris, dead at 27 after a massive heart attack. Jim Morrison could never grow...
...Deal Arts Projects. The Writers Project interview cited above is contained in an anthology edited by Cambridge writer Ann Banks and scheduled for publication by Knopf later this year; another Writers Project anthology, Such As Us, appeared last year. Free, Adult, Uncensored is a welcome addition to the growing collection. And the nostalgia itself is a welcome reminder that sometimes an approach that rejects elitism can cause art and artists to flourish and grow...