Word: sodden
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...images that haunt Bacon haunt his viewers even more. Great bisected sides of beef are constant and chilly recurring still lifes in his works. "I look at a lamb chop on a plate, and it means death to me," says he. The human figure is contorted into pretzel poses, sodden and stiff as if in rigor mortis. His cubism is boldly uncubical: blurry whorls, bulges, and lumps perform the cubist function of showing one object from all sides in a series of succeeding moments -an idea partly derived from a photo of a chimpanzee in Ozenfant's Foundations...
...strolled. He wouldn't say more. And in an hour, he was in the SNCC Office, water running from his sodden trousers, his face and hands dried by the long run from the pool. He had picked up two of his boys. The three had vaulted the fence, taken a dip in the forbidden pool, and exited by the front gate under the gaping, ineffectual stares of the whites...
...government and colonial leaders signed the birth certificate of a new British Commonwealth nation. It was the Federation of Malaysia, which was to be composed of independent Malaya, self-governing Singapore, and the three British territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo. But at the last moment, the oil-sodden sultanate of Brunei pulled out of the agreement in a fit of pique over the final terms of federation...
...could not see the others, but we heard their cries. Soon we heard nothing but the thundering water. We clung to the ledge and prayed.'' Those two were saved, but when the flood subsided three hours later, the muddy floor of the gorge was littered with sodden, battered bodies-Abbé Steinmann, two Arabs (a guide and a driver), and 21 Frenchwomen. Petra police flashed word of the disaster to Amman and, dropping everything, King Hussein flew his helicopter to the Siq gorge and personally directed operations. The two survivors were rushed to comfortable quarters in Hussein...
...County, where even the local Snopeses are kind to small animals. At times, the Salinas corn has been as high, if not as dry, as William Saroyan's young eye; at others, the view from Steinbeck's wayward literary bus has resembled Henry Miller's sex-sodden Tropics, minus the belly laughs...