Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are some plays that a reviewer would rather feed than judge. Like stray kittens, they rub up against you in an imploring, hard-to-resist way and make friendly little noises. They are so thin that one yearns to put flesh on the bones of their plots, give them vitamin-rich lines to chew, and nourish their characters and situations...
Seeger's intellectualism may rub some connoisseur of Country music or the blues the wrong way. But it will do so only if the so-called expert tries to take Seeger on terms different from Seeger's own. For if Seeger ever fancied himself as another Guthrie (and I doubt he ever did), he has for a long time made himself perfectly clear: his mission is not to be Woody, but to inspire the love for people's songs and the rugged America which made the boy from Oklahoma tick. And Seeger has a further mission, which is political...
...retrospect, De Kooning seems to have hardly ever painted an abstract picture. The resistant surfaces of the real world are always there in the paint, whether explicitly-as in the Woman series 20 years ago-or by implication, in the fleshy rub and friction of one biomorphic shape against another. His new canvases suggest (not only by their titles) the low, flat landscapes of Long Island: high-keyed pinks and yellows and acid greens, a flicker of noon light, blue heat-haze on the potato fields, a jumble of sun-flushed legs on the sand. With a handful of minor...
...look strong as well. Coach Alice McCabe has most of last year's squad back again, so you have to figure them to be among the top squads in New England. And with Don Gambril bringing in a lot of big-time tactics, some of them are bound to rub off on the Radcliffe swimmers who share the same pool. The 'Cliffe mermaids definitely will be a force to consider in women's swimming circles...
...birth of a baby girl, a Navajo woman was supposed to find a spider web and to rub it on the child's arm so that her fingers would never tire of weaving. When the girl grew of age, she began weaving between two upright trees, and she created her patterns without any kind of preliminary design. The magic tradition, according to Spider Man's message, "is yours to work with and to use following your own wishes...