Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clad in a simple khaki uniform without insignia, China's Commander in Chief and President rose to his feet from a sofa in the corner of the room. Slowly, without show of emotion, he made the announcement that all had expected: he would leave Nanking and go to his native home. Then in his choppy Ningpo accent he read from a formal statement: "With the hope that hostilities may be brought to an end and the people's suffering relieved, I have decided to retire...
...appetite. To feel, to seize, to penetrate, to abandon: these were the verbs of his art, as they were of his cruelly narcissistic relationships with the "goddesses or doormats," as he categorized the women in his life. Hence, the energy of The Embrace, 1925, its lovers grappling on a sofa in their orifice-laden knot of apoplectic randiness. Hence, too, the fear (amounting sometimes to holy terror, but more often to a witch-killing misogyny) that emanates from creatures like the bony mantis woman of Seated Bather, 1930. Such images are cathartic. One needs colossal self-confidence to expose such...
Amin was warming to his subject and moved to the edge of the sofa. "You have to know something. People here are attached to a liberal system. This is our national feeling, our genuine feeling. Right now, in Lebanon, Syrians are taking political hostages. You are obliged to collaborate, go underground or leave. Some 'emigrate to the other world' [a grim allusion to assassination]. Foreign intervention in Lebanon is the main problem for the U.S. here. People will back the government that backs a liberal system. We are sincere and genuine in saying that we are talking about...
...breezed through the doors of the Ar cadia Outpatient Surgery Inc. in Arcadia, Calif. Within an hour, she would undergo surgery to remove a lump of scar tissue from her breast. Logan snapped a plastic name band on her wrist, took her seat on a soft, brown leather sofa and began thumbing through a magazine. Hers was not going to be a long stay: a quick (55 minute) visit to the lemon-yellow operating suite, a brief rest in an equally cheerful recovery room, and then on her feet and out the door by 1:30 p.m. "This is much...
...entourage steers her (still talking) toward the studio. Sprinting through a door into a living room-like set, she drops daintily onto a white sofa. A quick glance into a hand mirror. Perfection. As the television camera's red light blinks on, she smiles serenely into the lens as if she had spent the entire morning becalmed in the tranquillity of a tea ceremony...