Word: pocketing
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Samaras' sense of texture is acute, and he uses it to produce visual effects that are almost physically painful. His boxes bristle with pins and blades and wires; a pocket edition of Dante's Divine Comedy gapes and a pair of scissors holding a double-edged Gillette razor snicks out of it; a stuffed bird. Box 55, nestles in a bed composed not of twigs but of thousands upon thousands of sharp glass fragments. The textures, in short, are not to be touched; they are real enough to wound, but they do not pertain to the "real" world...
...around 9:30 p.m., and tapped Stewart on the shoulder. It was like those posters you see in the Naval station exchange, where the icy hand of Death descends upon the clavicle of those who drink then drive. Stewart never had to turn around. He just reached into his pocket, produced a crumpled, beet-soaked check, and signed CHARLES KING STEWART. It was that simple...
...umpteenth time, Leonard tried to save her from the rising wave of madness. But one of the horrors of her tragedy was that with part of her mind she could watch her own deterioration. On March 28 she put a heavy stone in her coat pocket and walked into the river Ouse, leaving her husband a heartbreaking note. "Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been...
...told him a story," Singer continued. "I once went into a tailor's in Warsaw and asked for a cost with crooked pocket. He told me I didn't need to ask, I could ask for straight pockets and they should still be crooked...
...Billy Graham? Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Hereafter But Were Afraid to Ask? Not so. They are talking about an illustrated parable concerning a seagull who learns aerobatics. They are talking about a volume so small that Winnie the Pooh could carry it in his hip pocket, and so unfleshly that a vestal virgin might choose to read it at a church picnic. In short, about Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the year's?and perhaps even the decade's?pop publishing miracle...