Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daughter lives on Australian Standard Time, eats like a wolverine, gulps down air, stores up pockets of gas that are not easily jiggled out of her. She poops with gay abandon. Her deepest pleasure comes from pooping while feeding, to engage the entire digestive tract at once. Pure bliss. She fights off sleep, afraid she might miss something. Midnight to 6 a.m. is prime time, and if she dozes, she keeps one eye open for the main action. My maneuver for laying her in the crib is very involved, something I learned from a National Geographic special on the praying...
Chuck Close has to be the most methodical artist that ever lived in America. He goes at the canvas with all the afflatus of a silkworm eating its phlegmatic way across a mulberry leaf. His way of painting, once set up, becomes an effort of pure transcription that relocates the acts of imagination way back in the roots of its system, and spends months on it. Essentially, what he does is copy faces large from small photographs. "Large" means enormous--canvases 8 ft. or 9 ft. high, filled with the staring face of someone you probably don't know...
Hess, last year's National Attackman of the Year, is a pure feeder who quarter-backs the offense. A matchup to watch will be the battle between Hess, and Harvard's outstanding sophomore defenseman, Jeff Psaki...
...pure and simple--Harvard is one of the few places where it's almost impossible to get tenure," he said...
...their CD collection, blues great Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues Singers. Clapton, of course, is more than just a bluesman--from Sunshine of Your Love to Layla to Tears in Heaven, he has displayed a mastery of a variety of musical styles, including hard rock and pure pop. But one thing the decidedly pop-oriented Pilgrim mostly lacks is something Clapton's best work, particularly his blues work, has always possessed--and that's guts...