Word: outerness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this narrative isn't the whole of the picture by any means. De Hooch was a master of spatial composition. In his pictures you are never entirely inside or wholly outside. His rooms aren't closed, artificially lit boxes but part of a continuity between the inner and outer worlds, revealing the truth of both under the benison of natural light. In this painting the rectangles of the brown room with its wide wallboards and alcove bed open backward into stages of increasing light. The window casts a bright lozenge of sun on the worn tiles of the floor beyond...
...bust our cubes for you!" (What more could a customer ask for?) "The Ice Man cometh seven days a week." (Does he?) "Is one really enough?" (One bag? Probably not!) These are just a few of the slogans that pepper the outer walls of Boston's largest self-serve ice receptacle which occupies a small lot on the border of the Cambridge and Somerville, 100 Kirkland St. According to local legend, a little man named George lives inside the landmark. It is he who 24/7 offers the five-pound bags of cubed ice for $1 and $2 blocks...
...raised domestically, most skins are sent to France and Italy for tanning and are reimported as handbags and wallets. "This nation's alligator farmers are hurting bad," moaned Ted Joanen, chairman of the American Alligator Council. He needn't have worried: the USTR went after handbags and wallets with "outer surface of sheeting of plastics." But that outraged high-end department stores such as Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus...
...course, once the exam is over, we are far too tired to protest or even remember these people who seem to venture down from the outer reaches of the solar system in order to administer our finals. Yet every year, they return, renewing our faith that there is indeed life after college and that people exist in the universe who do not care about exams...
...Your talk show was canceled by Paramount, the company that went on to distribute Desmond Pfeiffer and Homeboys in Outer Space. That's got to hurt...