Word: smear
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sherman Oaks, Calif., Cathy- Lee Vincent, a store employee, is transfixed by the televised image of her face as electronic "makeup" is applied, cleaned off and then reapplied in a rainbow of hues and shades. As Bonnie Sinclair, a promotional representative for Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, wields her stylus, a smear of eye shadow reshapes Vincent's eyes. A touch of blusher highlights her cheeks...
...descriptions of the diagnoses for many STDs (Zinner believes that STD should be used as common terminology for what was once called VD) is confusing at best, annoying at its worst. The way in which smear tests are applied to microscopic slides are of interest to perhaps a few physicians. But even to those with STDs, who may have had experience with the actual tests, Zinner's details of the procedures are still difficult to follow...
...real peculiarity of his figurative style is that it manages to be both precise and ungraspable, for its distortions of face and limb bear little relationship to anything that painters have done to the human body since Cezanne. Forms are governed by slippage: they smear sideways, rotating, not like the succession of displayed facts and transparent planes in cubism, but as though they had endured some terminal rearrangement by massage. Their shape retains an obstinate integrity, the precise result of a sudden movement. And by the early to mid-'60s, the time of the great triptychs, when Bacon decisively abandoned...
...MAJORITY OPINION has accomplished an interesting feat--while simultaneously jumping on the bash-Meese-forever-without-evidence bandwagon, it manages at the same time to smear a White House advisor who has done nothing improper, has never been officially accused of any wrong-doing, and is in any case leaving the Government...
Back in the dressing room, wrestlers are having a smoke and taping their limbs in preparation for bouts to come. Some smear on baby oil to avoid abrasion from the ropes and canvas ring. "Bruiser" Frank Brody, mid-30s, preparing to wrestle, unclasps his black hair from a ponytail, douses it under a tap and lets it hang limp and long about his huge shoulders. "I might work ten or 15 days in a row," he says softly. "I try to save money, live quiet and plan for retirement," he adds. Well-known wrestlers like Brody earn anywhere from...