Word: licks
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...young graduate student in astronomy had not been looking for comets -- he was using a 24 in. telescope at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California to study the colors of certain stars...
...Sydney Clark, whose All the Best books are pleasant introductions to 26 countries. Clark genuinely likes every place he goes, loves to lead his readers to spots that other guides ignore, such as the Buttes-Chaumont Park in Paris' 19th Arrondissement, but gives restaurants little more than a lick and hotels not much more than a promise...
...went among the sleek, naked towers to see some Kenneth Anger films. Anger is best known for Fireworks, a gay dream film featuring him projecting a roman candle from his fly and lighting it. Scorpio Rising (1963), a later work, is a slightly premature pop culture lick featuring motorcycles, an overripe rock soundtrack, and genitals. The genitals are only there for a couple of frames. But the audience at M.I.T. was very fond of them. Especially a group of aging motorcyclists sitting next...
...large. On the crudest level there is something cardinally and delightfully sylleptic about the fact that Henry can be both Henry House and Pussycat, Mr. Bones, the professor and the jazzman. What results is a comedy of tone. Humor depends on the way things are said. "My psychiatrist can lick your psychiatrist (women get under things)"; or from the best Eisenhower poem in years...
What Mommy wants is to be one up on Daddy-always. Of course, Daddy can be trying. He keeps a lemon-blonde lollipop of a mistress around the place, and sometimes gives her a lick, right in front of Mommy. Since they are all unloving and unloved, no one is hurt. But the pomposities of the dialogue can be pretty wounding: "The sky is pocked with stars," "I've spent two years on every street in hell...