Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...19th century women quilt makers anticipate many of the formal devices and color systems of Op art and color-field painting. Seen with an unprejudiced eye, the snap and sparkle of the piecework Cactus Rose-pattern quilt of 1875 can reduce a lot of modernist abstraction to visual mush...
...attendants who are in a rush to get back to their wards. An attendant who has become proficient in the art of spoonfeeding can scoop a meal into the mouths of nine children in less than twelve minutes. The food given the residents can be described only as mush, and I have yet to meet a normal person who would agree to eat the food served to the residents of Willowbrook...
...over the ice? Revising history is frequently a comedown for the hero (and antihero) worshiper. But for the record: it was not one man at all but a U.S.-Canadian team led by one Ralph Plaisted of Minnesota. The party arrived April 19, 1968, without so much as a mush. They were riding Ski-Doos...
...plunge. The familiar shapes of society ? landlord and peasant, priest and politician ? are laid over a stranger ground, the occult Mexico, with its brujos and carismaticos, its sorcerers and diviners. Some of their practices go back 2,000 and 3,000 years to the peyote and mush room and morning-glory cults of the ancient Aztecs and Toltecs. Four centuries of Catholic repression in the name of faith and reason have reduced the old ways to a subculture, ridiculed and persecuted. Yet in a country of 53 mil lion, where many village marketplaces have their sellers of curative...
...dismay, Ali found the site crowded not only with fans but with demonstrators, who greeted the heroine of Love Story with rude placards. Urged one: LET US GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. ALI MACGRAW, WHO ARE YOU!! Ali knelt anyway, pressed her extremities into the mush, also inscribed, "Peace & Love, Ali MacGraw," and then departed, her place in movie history secure...