Word: moistness
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...audience and their girlfriends hide sagging bellies with leather jackets and thinning hair with attitude. Punks look around nervously for their mothers and try to scam some beer. Others pretend to dance to the woompwoomp, and laugh. Yuppies sup, and eye each another. More waiting, more techno. Woompwoomp. Thickening, moist air. Finally: stringy guy with no body fat--like, none at all--and long hair walks out. Rockers, punks, yuppies, et cetera ecstatic. And Iggy Pop begins to play. Acoustic. What--as they say--the hell...
Next we tried plugging my tear ducts (outgoing, not incoming) to keep my eyes moist. A little improvement, which reversed when the temporary plugs dissolved. Another round hasn't helped much. The next step is permanent plugs, supposedly to create a tighter seal. I'm still soaking up bottled tears like an ocular desert and putting moisture goop in my eyes every night...
...explanation that allows the bereaved a certainty and solace in the face of a horrible riddle. And faced with the same endless series of senseless bloodlettings, even more secular precincts of America have been giving such claims a respectful hearing. After the shootings a moist-eyed George W. Bush said, "There seems to be a wave of evil passing through America." Today show's Katie Couric, interviewing Wedgwood's pastor, Al Meredith, listened as he offered the standard explanation for the crime: the killer was "deranged and deluded." Then, almost hesitantly, the pastor noted, "There's some possible theological, religious...
...hogs and a million poultry lie rotting in fetid floodwaters, and the animals that survive ? military vehicles have been called in to help save livestock across the eastern part of the state ? are certainly not defecating where they ought. North Carolinians will certainly welcome Bill Clinton?s moist eye (and wrinkled nose), and the attention and federal disaster monies he?ll bring with him. But with agricultural losses set to exceed $1 billion, rivers still on the rise, and the official death toll (now at 23) bound to skyrocket next week when those rivers finally recede, North Carolina?s disaster...
...more than half mad. But Carax vitalizes the film with images that sparkle, smolder, catch fire; he might be offering Michele a last visual banquet before her eyes close forever. Binoche's beauty is, naturally, the main course. One watches her ferocity, the hard-won smile and moist eyes, with studious rapture...