Word: hosing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...given day he may collaborate with technicians, architects and mathematicians. Yet the finished product is often remarkably simple. You could say that some combination of straightforward means and subtle effects is the signature of Eliasson's best work. Beauty, after all, is nothing more than a perforated hose and a spotlight. And with those Eliasson made something haunting, complex and even poignant-an object of desire that dematerializes when you try to get close to it. It may be "yours." But it could only...
...against three viable contenders, including Boasso, a portly one-term state senator from hurricane-ravaged St. Bernard Parish who has a compelling backstory of his own: he started his successful shipping-tank-cleaning business, Boasso America, with little more than "a box of Tide and a garden hose," as he likes to tell people. Last April, after state Republican party leadership endorsed Jindal and when it became clear that Breaux was out of the race, Boasso switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, and he has spent the ensuing weeks burnishing his regular-guy image. Public service commissioner...
...born in, near the heart of the Peloponnese peninsula. "We're doomed." Not far from her, on the other end of the hilltop town of Karnasi, a daring housewife stands defiant. She and her son have refused to evacuate the town, reaching for a skimpy yellow garden hose to shield their nine white goats, 14 roosters and garden of olive, lemon and fig trees from the blaze tearing through the town. "I have no other option," says Vassiliki Panagopoulou. "I just can't get up and leave my home of 40 years." From Greece's northern frontiers, to the holiday...
...which was a mandatory drown-proofing seminar. My gym class and I entered a cold pool at six in the morning, fully clothed and wearing shoes, to float for 30 minutes. At first, the experience was kind of soothing. Then, the football coach sprayed us with a high-powered hose to mimic “conditions...
...afternoon of warming myself by the giant mushroom outside Canaday and then stalking the young adult section at Gutman Library. No sooner had I fallen asleep in the warm currents under the mushroom thanYard Ops came by and covered me in green mulch shot from a fire hose. After that, Gutman refused me admittance due to my history of crying into the books and ruining the bindings. Tears welling and covered in poorman’s Astroturf, I was mortified. I was feeling a little down after this double rejection so I started to wander over towards Eliot to visit...