Word: sag
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Velazquez's portraits of Philip IV are the most remarkable biography of a monarch in all art, spanning his life from the confidence of youth to the melancholy and distance of his afflicted age. The face thickens, the eyes sag, the Bourbon lip takes on a heavy repressed pathos; you can almost see it quiver. Only the mustache, whose upswept prongs will be imitated by Salvador Dali's, seems alert, like antennae. "It is now nine years since any ((portrait)) has been made," Philip IV noted in 1653, in the last decade of his and his painter's lives...
Talk about your nerve-jangling summer adventures. No, not Batman or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. For many women, it's those countless forays into the dressing room in search of a bathing suit that won't expose every bulge or sag. This summer, however, has provided some relief from the unforgiving itsy- bitsy bikini. Enter the fashionable swimsuit...
Although there is usually no water along the route, as the towns can be 60 miles apart, each trip has two Support and Gear (SAG) vehicles, which drive back and forth among the riders and carry gear, food supplies, water and fruit for during the ride, Faber says...
Kahrl says that the SAG vehicles patrol the riders from front to back, and each rider usually sees a SAG vehicle every hour. "You can get in the SAG if you are hurt or tired," he says...
Faber says that before her trip, she didn't have any conception of what 80 miles was, and that at times, during 11-mile climbs in the Rockies, she didn't think she would make it. "People did walk at times, and some people would ride in the SAG, but with 18 gears, you can really make it, even if you have to go very slowly," she says...