Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arresting drama out of platitudes. His characters are listless nobodies who prattle witlessly about the weather, the neighbors, about eating and sleeping. Cooped up in wretched little rooms, they fondle material possessions and mull over memories like savages, so drugged by habit that paltry incidents pass for news. They soak up mundane sensory experience through a screen of simple-minded, petulant prejudices...
...thick layer of unstable ash has accumulated in the area between Cartago and the smoking mountain. With the rainy season approaching, it may turn into a slithery morass and, faster than a man can run, slide down the valleys, picking up rocks and trees. The first heavy rain to soak Irazú, Tazieff fears, may well start a giant mudslide capable of destroying Cartago...
...never seen them before and began at once to point out inequalities and different hands that must have taken part in the execution. The fault of teaching art history. The student is inclined to analyze and dissect the moment he encounters the object, instead of letting is soak into him as he gazes and looks, and dreams for hours together, the way I used to when young, and still should if I had youth's leisure. I recall writing in the same vein about the contemporary student's approach to literature. He is not encouraged to live and muse...
...system, increased the role of American business in the development of less developed countries, and proposed to the Congress a sharp reduction in corporate as well as personal income taxes, and a major deregulation of transportation, and yet many businessmen are convinced that a Democratic Administration is out to soak the rich...
...Soak one pound of split peas for two days in 100-proof bourbon. Distribute the peas outside your windows, on the ledge or fire escape, and then sit back and wait. Soon hordes of pigeons will descend to eat the peas. The effect of the 100-proof bourbon on a pigeon's constitution is amazing, and soon they will fall to their own natural death...