Word: skim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mather has no artwork, either. Although Carlhain designed some genuinely imaginative art for the House (an enormous clock to fit inside the library's circular staircase, a huge dining hall mural spewing skim milk from trompe l' oeil spouts), all of it was eliminated in the budget trimming which also deprived the student rooms of carpeting and closet doors. Noise pollution, too, is a problem: there is no division between bedrooms in the doubles, and it has been suggested that at Mather, the sound of one hand clapping in the Dining Hall can be heard in the Junior Common Room...
Such descriptions merely skim the surface of Bob and Ray's comedy. They are superior cliché kidders and satirists of the first order; they record things almost exactly as they are heard and seen every day-and then they take that one subtle, savage, farcical step over the brink into the inane...
...rather reticent way, Proust liked Cocteau and understood him. He once told him he wished "for something to happen that would isolate you, so that after a sufficiently long period of fasting you might again really hunger after those beautiful books, beautiful pictures, beautiful countries that you now skim over with the lack of appetite of someone who has spent all New Year's Day making a round of visits, each complete with marrons glac...
...Justice Department has used its machinery in a national crack-down against the militant parts of the American left. It is equally clear that the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities performs the same function at Harvard. The CRR's one year history is a series of attempts to skim the most influential activists off the top of the radical movement, with little or no regard for an individual's actual involvement in the cited "crime." Four students were expelled last fall for behavior identical to that of forty others who were obstructing Dean May during the painters' helpers struggle...
...They don't want to be jet-setty or way out. Mrs. Nixon must be ladylike." To this end, Clara Treyz advises, with Pat's consent, clothes that tend toward the bland and predictable, styles that hover on that precarious border between classic and passe. Jackets skim the body, neither hiding nor defining; sleeves cap the arm, and skirts end at mid-knee, neither here nor there. Pants do not suit...