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...penetrate, to abandon: these were the verbs of his art, as they were of his cruelly narcissistic relationships with the "goddesses or doormats," as he categorized the women in his life. Hence, the energy of The Embrace, 1925, its lovers grappling on a sofa in their orifice-laden knot of apoplectic randiness. Hence, too, the fear (amounting sometimes to holy terror, but more often to a witch-killing misogyny) that emanates from creatures like the bony mantis woman of Seated Bather, 1930. Such images are cathartic: they project fears that no French artist (and outside France, only Edvard Munch) would...
Davis and Zaffuto put the Blue Jays back in front with one each. Meagher then added another to knot the match for the last time before Hopkins answered the roar of the partisan crowd and went out in front for good minutes later...
Duane Sutter beat Boston goalie Gerry Cheevers low to the stick side to knot the score at 2-2 early in the final period, and Clark Gillies, no Garden favorite, added the decisive tally with 14:02 left in regulation...
...eldest sister, Esther Crampton (Maureen O'Sullivan), lives down the road with David (Gary Merrill), her elitist curmudgeon of a husband, who openly reviles her siblings and their menfolk as "morons." Naturally, each sister cuts through the Gordian knot of close relations only to find it intact - even if more loosely binding. However, Homer amusingly severs his umbilical cord...
...sound followed by something that sounded like a muffled explosion." So recalled one of the numbed but fortunate few who were plucked from the icy North Sea last week after the worst oil rig disaster in the history of offshore drilling. Battered by towering 25-ft. waves and 55-knot winds, a mammoth floating dormitory housing 212 oil workers capsized and plunged into the sea, 100 miles west of the Norwegian coast...