Word: primal
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...Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks greater than the sea . . . Four eternities." There are times -- as in the wonderfully ineloquent An Island in the Sea (1911) -- when Bellows' vision of the coast, a primal geological scene of humped resistant stone lapped around by silvery water or great beating green rollers, assumes a poetry worthy of Winslow Homer...
Catalan Gothic is austere, primal, bony architecture, nowhere near as decorated as French or English. Its grandeur is all in the structure, and no building displays this more piercingly than the 14th century church of Santa Maria del Mar, the "workers' church" of Barcelona, with its sublimely plain interior, a solemn Sequoia grove of stone hewed from the quarries of Montjuic, the mountain that guards the port...
...Quad Howl" (the suburban version of the River Houses' pre-exam primal scream) can sometimes get out of hand (bandies overtook the roof of Cabot House this year), but I figured this tank wasn't from the National Guard. No, its real purpose was more pressing. The tank was circling unceasingly and shooting grass seed from a huge cannon about 40 feet...
...British group, comprised of guitarist/songwriter Roland Orzabal and vocalist Curt Smith, was founded in the early 1980s when the musicians decided that the solutions to a lot of the problems in the world, including their own, could be corrected effectively with access to Primal Therapy. Calculating that such access would come to them only if they become rich and famous (and could thus afford it) the two men formed their band...
...shopping malls on every block make their mark on the plastic expanse of wide streets and sun-bronzed people. And when the sun descends over the pacific, the wild ones know exactly where to go. They hip-hop downtown--where pleasures-seekers and licentious groovers explode recklessly to the primal beats of the night. Tonight the scene is the old Park Plaza Hotel, where a French restauranteur is throwing his version of an all-or-nothing revelry of life...