Word: sand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dreamworld of real consumer goods; Carelman's show presents an actual world of fantasy goods. The 50 creations on display include a masochist's coffeepot with the spout over the handle, thus guaranteeing a scalding for anyone who uses it; an hourglass filled with pebbles, not sand, "for people who don't want to grow old"; a pipe with four different faucets for water at different temperatures; a hammer with a handle so bent that nobody can hit his thumb; a cat-shaped traveling bag with handles and a perforated Plexiglas nose for taking...
...primate? In both cases, she maintains, convenience rather than pleasure was the decisive factor. Although an ape's vagina is easily accessible from the rear, the human vagina has moved forward and is "tidily tucked away" deep in the body, "possibly for protection against salt water and abrasive sand." Man's penis thus "grew longer for the same reason as the giraffe's neck -to enable it to reach something otherwise inaccessible." The male "came around to the front because he could no longer make it from the back...
...singer intones a long text and creates several beautiful "sand paintings" by arranging patterns of pollen, meal, crushed flowers and charcoal on a canvas of sand or buckskin. He directs the patient to sit on each painting while he conducts a ceremonial treatment, and then the paintings-and presumably the sick man's problems-are destroyed section by section...
...become one's own client. In other words, think tanks by contracting several clients, are obtaining freedom to become their own client since they are not totally responsible to one client. This has its advantages. Working for only the top levels of the government is like writing in the sand. High officials too often fall to the tide of appointments, and elected officials' priorities constantly fluctuate. The limits of time play too risky a role for the think tank to lay all its bets on the instability of government officials...
...wore him out that one night he locked her in a hotel room and fled, leaving a substantial sum to pay for the furniture he knew she would break. In Paris, she got culture and a taste for liberal politics in the company of Balzac, Lamartine, George Sand, Victor Hugo, and especially Dumas père. She found the great love of her life, however, with a talented radical editor named Alexandre Dujarier...