Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speck of sand that agitates long enough to produce a fine pearl...
...smile at newsmen." Religious confessions, Christian and Moslem, were received by two priests and a mallam (a Moslem religious leader). While the throng looked on, the 15-man firing squad opened up. The shooting lasted ten minutes, as one by one the coup plotters slumped to the blood-soaked sand...
Listen. The music here is louder than anything you will hear. It is made by machines: a clanging of metal on metal, the twanging of invisible red-hot wires, a shuffling of wood and sand, and maybe, just maybe, the sound of something human. A woman coos in a muted voice, as if she were speaking through bed sheets. A man wails deep; his anguish, supposedly lashed to a sexual moment, is only the synthetic spawn of the recording studio--artificial, abstract. A chorus of women chant undecipherable orisons to some street-wise goddess of love. Their voices are synchronized...
Maps, analemmas, collaged owls and jigsawed parrots, mirrors, watchsprings, scraps of tulle, cones and cork balls, wine glasses, sodium-browned photographs of long-dead dancers, tiny drawers filled with red sand-there is no apparent limit to the variety that found its way into Cornell's boxes, and any list of them begins to sound more like incantation than description...
...only what we inherit from our parents that keeps on returning in us. It's all the old self-doubts, fears, hurts, prejudices. They aren't alive in us; but they hang on just the same...Ghosts everywhere--so many and thick, they're like grains of sand...