Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something to do with both. A European is apt to seek the meaning of a work like the modern Ashanti wood carving of a mother and child from Ghana in its harmony of shapes: the massive, fluid bulges of hair, the delicate formal rhyme between the points of nose, chin and conical breasts, and so forth. But when Thompson showed it to an African, his response to what seemed "universal" in the sculpture was quite different. "She is purely there. She gives milk to the child. She secures his body with the other hand. She is sitting well, like...
...from London to the more conservative town of Winchester. Their supporters have also charged that prison officials brutalized the sisters by force-feeding them during their long hunger strike. Force-feeding -in which a person's mouth is clamped open while a greased tube is inserted through his nose and a "complan" solution of iron, orange and milk-soaked glucose is poured directly into the stomach-usually causes acute vomiting...
...year-old Marseilles secretary. "She'd always say the same thing: 'I'm going to end up pregnant,' " complained her husband. A 36-year-old librarian from Dieppe said that she had accepted the fact that she was frigid "the way others have a crooked nose or are missing...
Cott includes an almost intimidating photograph of George Macdonald, one of the most influential of Victorian writers. He has an imposing, theatrical head--with staring eyes, straight nose, and a massive white beard--a black cassock is draped over his shoulders and bound with rope at the waist. Macdonald wrote allegorical, spiritual fantasy in a language that can only be described as lyric and dignified. Archetypes people his tales--like Photogen, the "day boy" and Nycteris, the "night girl" whom a witch raised on "wine dark as a carbuncle, and pomegranates, and purple grapes, and birds that dwell in marshy...
Leone, smarting from a nose-out in the individual 440 finals, blazed to a 47.4 last leg, one of the fastest 440 times run in the day. Brown, who had just completed two 49-plus individual quarters, came back strong with a 48-flat split...