Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little known art of French printmaking in the 16th and 17th centuries. The prints displayed served a purpose, that purpose, when translated into modern standards, ranges from billboard images to the poor man's substitute painting. The prints were either displayed in local taverns, public notice-hanging walls or kept in a private collection. Among the assembled prints at the MFA, are both the first "pin-up girl" (a partially nude woman, her left breast exposed) and the first comic strip. Peddlers wandered, carrying mass copies of these various prints on their backs, selling them for pennies each...
Technology is identified as the thing that kept him grounded and out of trouble. His descriptions almost deify computers and give them higher powers. Only when he lost interest in computers as a 12-year-old because he was in "a rush to get older," did his life take a crooked turn for the worse. An innocent cigarette addiction picked up while playing "Space Invaders" in his local arcade turns into a dangerous real-life video game where "points were gained by taking chances that others wouldn't. Doing drugs gained points; stealing gained points; blowing things up gained points...
...that the cashier was this dreamy football player from my math class. I wanted to be able to talk to him alone, so I asked my mom to just leave and give me the money and I would handle everything alone. So as he was bagging my food, he kept giving me these sly smiles and I was feeling like we were clicking really well. When I got home to unload the groceries, I remembered we had picked up some laxatives for my dad! Now the whole school thinks I have a constipation problem. Talk about letting the wind...
...spent the whole day in the basement of Mower baking Jeanne this cake in the shape of a heart. I had planned to let Jeanne find it in my fridge after the Kroks concert, but she told me early that evening that she didn't feel like eating. I kept suggesting though, that we go back to my room. I thought for sure that she had found out about the cake...
...kept coming up with big passing shots, but I kept the pressure on and closed it out," Majmudar said...