Word: poring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, gauzy stories redolent of power struggles accompanied this reversal: you can still pore them out of newspapers. While the accounts may come across rather authoritatively in print, they are also apt to be vague, and scratching around in reference books often provides no historical clues to these struggles. Instead of offering a sturdy explanation, the journalists unendingly dissect the latest round of titular shuffling (the latest on Teng is still going strong after six months) until someone composes a new variation on the theme of personality clashes and shifts within the hierarchy. Personality and power, after all, make good...
...school she felt trapped. "My whole body felt like it was on fire, like every pore was open and there was glass tubing in it." She listened to Coltrane and Sinatra, and invented daydreams about Arthur Rimbaud, the French mystical poet, whose portrait reminded her of Dylan. For several years she was a Jehovah's Witness; later she dipped into Oriental religions. As a teenager, she drew furiously, then turned to calligraphy and finally to poetry. Says she: "Art takes the primitive and pumps it up real high from the heart to the intellect. Those who are illuminated...
Soon the Professor, who wants little more than the time to study his books and pore over his art collection, becomes embroiled in the sexual squabbles and pairings going on right above his head...
...There have been several others in our generation who have celebrated the world around them, but none with that inevitability where the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the very last touch of the brush For Avery was a great poet-inventer who had invented sonorities never seen nor heard before. From these we have learned much and will learn more for a long time to come...
...Beverly Hills Tennis Club. To help pay his way, Jimmy's mother temporarily moved to L.A. to teach tennis herself. "Everyone said Jimmy was too small," remembers Segura. Undaunted, Segura began passing on his knowledge about technique, tactics and strategy, and at the club he and Connors would often pore over improvised diagrams that Pancho drew on paper table napkins...