Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound, to which we attach meaning. So these are arbitrary shapes that I'm inviting you to attach meaning to, that combine to make a larger picture." She sees the wall as "a diary of the breath that it took to make [it]," as well as "footprints in the sand" and "an accumulation of gestures...
...walked to the beach on Sunday morning. The snow made a wide lateral strip at the top, and where it stopped, the sand, brown and wet, continued to the lip of the ocean. I suppose the tide washing ashore made that portion of the sand too warm and moist to sustain the covering of snow, so half the beach was snow and the other half sand...
...spoon is always upsetting, no matter how often one looks at it, because we tend to keep certain textures and functions separate in our minds. Snow on a beach is not upsetting in the same way, but it startles the imagination. Where a child built a castle in the sand, he might make a snowman in winter. Or he could build a fort, two forts, two forts of perishable substances. Two beachheads...
...mind drifts in this direction because, no matter that I know there is no reason for bringing the snow and the sand together, still, one is always trying to connect disparate things. How should one drink tea out of an animal? What coherent whole can I make of snow on a beach...
Weinstein, 44, and his partner-brother Bob, 42, had special cause to rejoice. Miramax corralled 20 nominations, more than any major studio and the most ever for an indie outfit. The English Patient, with enough sand and grandeur to make it Lawrence of Arabia with women, snagged 12 nominations. The Weinsteins have also scored in the real world of the box office. Scream, the teen horror movie made by their company's Dimension Films division, has scared up nearly $80 million--more than most of Miramax's nominated films. From its 1996 slate, the company has grossed $250 million...