Word: shivers
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...first day Clifford slotted in a few tabloid journalists for quick "exclusives." The results were anything but objective: "His dark eyes stared into mine," wrote the Sun's Amanda Cable, "and I felt a shiver go up my spine. Suddenly he leaned forward, touched my arm and roared, 'You're trying to ask me if I've been laid since my trial!'" Not exactly. Cable had asked whether he had been "dating...
...first insights. For him they were triggers of memory. "After my excursions," he wrote, "I invite Nature to come and spend a few days at home with me; brush in hand, I hunt for nuts in the forest of my studio; there, I hear the birds sing, the trees shiver in the wind...
...pursue a book idea that had come to him during a trip to southwestern England. Evans had met a blacksmith who told of a local Gypsy able to tame wild steeds through some mysterious psychic connection. A horse whisperer, they called him. The story, says Evans, "made me shiver...
...feel much safer on the streets of Los Angeles when there are no cops around. I am not really afraid of criminals or carjackers. However, as soon as I see the red and blue flashing lights in my car's rearview mirror, my hands start to shake, my legs shiver, and cold sweat runs down my neck. And this happens when I'm fully aware that I have committed no crime. I know there are some good, and even a few outstanding, officers out there. However, decent cops are paying a price for their colleagues' abuses. Sadly enough, they...
...place, its end, with four still lifes by Francisco de Goya. Because Goya was supremely a painter of the human clay in all its aspects, we don't associate him with still life. But his powers of empathy were so vast that he could endow almost anything with a shiver of mortality and the cold touch of otherness; and so it is with these paintings...