Word: nosed
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...certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height," he told Newsday in 1980. "I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic...
...Islamic dress codes. Other residents were particularly incensed at a request to see the new mosque - built, according to officials in Tbilisi, by Wahhabi money from Saudi Arabia. "Go take pictures of churches," said one, who said he was a refugee from southern Chechnya. "Why are you poking your nose into our mosque?" The village, population about 3,000, was well-kept, and several new houses, luxurious-looking by any standards, sported double satellite dishes - surprising for a place that officially lives off subsistence farming and handouts. The mosque was closed and the mullah unavailable. After a photographer had snapped...
...mins., Curtis almost 90). Similarly, he could have relied on old, endearing mannerisms and played J.J. as the handsome, expansive con man, flashing those famous ivories as he suckered the rubes with his clipped, booming voice. Instead, he wears thick glasses, with what looks like a false nose under them. He turns his athletic energy inward to present a man nearly imploding with pent tension. He intones that Odetsian odes in a whisper, so that everyone, not just on screen, would lean in closer, the more vulnerable to his bite when he struck...
...Brace” (1999) is the most jarring and provocative of the works displayed. This enormous painting confronts the viewer with the looming image of what appears to be a grotesque mockery of the female form. With her painfully distended neck, puffy and veiled eyelids, stub-like nose and hairless head, it is difficult to determine whether her expression is one of miserable resignation or of defiant helplessness. Her androgynous body is bloated and motionless. Her paradoxically lush and painterly style enhances the painting’s macabre and moribund tone. The pallid fleshy hues that dominate Saville?...
...there was a time, before I knew anyone from points south and west of Pennsylvania, when the very idea of Garth Brooks was enough to make a haughty sniff rise in my northeast coast nose. Country music of any kind was considered by my friends and neighbors to be déclassé and faintly ridiculous— the music of rednecks and trailer-park dwellers and yes, Republicans...