Word: hand
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...desert all around. As soon as you get out of the plane (which has to refuel), you are assailed by millions of flies. The fly biomass of central Australia must be 10 times the biomass of humans or kangaroos. You at once start doing the irritable wave of the hand known as the outback salute. The flies crawl into your nostrils, eyes and ears, and when you get back in the plane, they fly in clouds into the cabin, so that the pilot takes out a can of powerful insecticide--"Jeez, this is going to smell really putrid," he cheerfully...
Surely American kids have never faced a more corrupting, corrosive and threatening environment. Or have they? Given the recent headlines and hand wringing, it is something of a shock to discover that according to a major new kids' survey, children don't see the world that way at all. For them, the mid-century mantra of youth still applies: What, me worry...
...lesson in all this?" First of all, if you covet your privacy, never commit anything to writing. If you absolutely must express something to a lover, wife or husband, I recommend the Gambino-family-style "walk and talk." Stroll outside with your interlocutor, covering your mouth with your hand as you converse. Make your conversation as vague as possible, and pepper it with inaudible remarks and gross expletives. Here is an example of a man using this technique to break up with his girlfriend...
...other hand, you're like me, and you don't mind the glare of publicity, then write away! And begin treating everything you compose as if it will someday be published. And I mean everything. Devote real care and imagination to those communications you've typically taken for granted...
...charms: "When we rode together in the front seat she liked to feel the embossing on the old leather holster of my pistol. It was a flowered design and very worn and old and she would trace the design very carefully with her fingers and then take her hand away and press the pistol and its holster close against her thigh...