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Since watercolor is a quick medium, it appealed to him from the start because it fitted into his crowded sched ule. He also found that he could not tolerate the smell of turpentine nor the messiness of oils. Though watercolors lack the warmth of thicker media, Christ-Janer strives to enrich them. In pursuit of textural effects, he has experimented with polymer glues to bind his colors, sand or gravel sprinkled on to give them tactility and visual variety...
...they won't remember which store had the gaudiest display or what TV ad was most outrageous; they will remember making and wrapping gifts for the family, making holiday cookies for company, the family's going to church together, Christmas carols, the stable under the tree, the smell of turkey, and all the visiting and getting together with family and friends. Christmas is the time when people are a bit less selfish than usual and have more love in their hearts for God and man. Maybe all the externals and trappings of Christmas have got out of hand...
...rage and humiliation, Ali hid in a shed situated some 30 feet downhill from the hut, and there fell asleep. Wakened by the smell of smoke, he realized in horror that the widow's house was on fire, and made violent attempts to drag himself up the steep slope to save her. But his body, weakened by a lifetime of socially induced inactivity, was so feeble that it took him half an hour to cover less than 30 feet. When the villagers came running up the hill, they found Ahmad and the widow dead in bed and the beggar...
...take part in public affairs, to smell the dust and sweat of battle, is surely to stimulate and amplify the historical imagination...
...Harvard man made the observation, "I'd rather take a break looking at a girl's legs than smelling some guy's sweaty socks." Girls have heard about the smell at Lamont, but one Cliffie predicted confidently that "the stronger Cliffies can take...