Word: shimmering
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...suddenly remembered that all those bodies I maneuvered past had feet, and all the female feet wore nail polish. No woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar...
...English-language paperback edition of Parasite Eve comes just in time for summer getaway reading. The editors at Vertical Press haven't weeded out the slew of mistranslations from the original hardcover English edition. But some of these botched phrases - including real puzzlers like "the unreality of a shimmer at the bottom of a cascade of sunlight" and "pessimism encountered the warmth lingering in his hands from the night before in subtle billows of conflict" - inadvertently achieve a kind of prose poetry reminiscent of the great Dada-influenced poet Chuya Nakahara. Grumbling about their incomprehensibility just keeps you from enjoying...
...line breaks, the punctuation, the ‘the’s and the ‘and’s. You could do that forever…Sometimes I’ve felt as if I’ve spent my whole life trying to make a poem shimmer, just shimmer just above the page, to make it just lift a little off the page. Well, you know, I’ve been working at this for a long time, and once in a while I go, “Yeah, that?...
...Three Zithers and a Pair of Scissors” was composed by Clark’s husband Stefan Hakenberg, who also received his Ph.D. from Harvard. Each song had six or seven different movements, separated by what looked like very complicated tuning processes. The zithers can chime and shimmer at some points and call to mind a pedal steel or blues guitar at others. The instruments are mainly plucked, though they were also hit with drumsticks and scraped to create a swishing sound.After the show, audience members were invited down to the stage to try their hand at playing...
...alone for the first time that night, grimacing and facing his demons head on, on their own terms. When he stepped away from the microphone to yell, it sent a shiver through the room. Still, it was hard not to smile after the show. Simply put, the Mountain Goats shimmer live and infuse their oeuvre with a vitality impossible to capture on record, and that’s enough to leave anyone happy—at least, until the home team slides into ignominy. Here’s hoping it really is the Cubs in five, because I sure...