Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then she began to withdraw her money with a vengeance, sometimes carting as much as $500,000 in cash home from the bank. She gave $10 and $20 bills to local children for odd jobs and as gifts. When her aging Cadillac blew a water hose, she plunked down $27,000 in cash for two Sevilles, explaining that she never wanted to be caught again without a car to drive...
...legs were like stumps the last three miles. Muscles I never knew I had started to hurt. Boston College, Commonwealth Ave, and Beacon St. blurred into abstraction, I sure wasn't admiring the sights or the crowds. I looked only for the proffered drink... the raised garden hose... water sprayed on my face. What Nirvana...
...with copy, qualitative differences emerge--things that you can put your finger on, figuratively and physically, in the painting but that are hard to verbalize. (The catalogue, a magnificent opus of scholarship and reproductions, strives bravely to do so and comes up with some hilarious erudite observations: "the particular hose-like configuration of the branches presupposes the influence of a follower of Wang Shih-sin.") The art of learning to recognize these subtleties is perhaps what "connoisseurship"--a word scented with elegant perfume, fine wine and elitism--is all about...
...behind certainly speaks volumes, but no more than an ad for No Nonsense panty hose. Or maybe Diet Pepsi and "the shape that girl-watchers watch." Forty-five years ago Welles made two films that set a twenty-year peace for cinematic experiment. Now he's cribbing from underwear commercials...
...that Carl Yastrzemski (among other Red Hose) broke the 100-RBI mark...