Word: sprawl
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...paintings at the Tate-about half of Bacon's undestroyed output-range from his famous screaming Popes and moldering businessmen to lumpish, bloated creatures that may huddle in the corner of a room, sprawl across a couch, or simply stare dumbly out of some indeterminate space. They are often close to being monsters, and sometimes they become great mounds of viscera. Bacon admits to being obsessed by death. "I look at a chop on a plate, and it means death to me," he says...
...towns, inter-city corridors, peripheral growth, and rationalized sprawl will be discussed at the sixth Urban Design Conference this weekend. As part of the program, Jose Luis Sert, dean of the Graduate School of Design, will deliver the second Gropius Lecture ("Architecture Without Frontiers") at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the Loeb Theatre...
Each place is liberally supplied with a dozen or more importuning B-girls; some are as young as 15, others are tired strumpets of 45. They sprawl at tables with pink-cheeked American youths who look as if they might be leaders of 4-H clubs back home. Cadging dollar drinks of "whisky" (tea served in a whisky glass), they fondle and proposition their escorts and watch the floor show with bored, vacant stares...
Lenore Jensen grew up surrounded by sureshot kin, practiced marksmanship as a tot. "When Lenore was two," recalls her mother, "she carried a toy rifle around with her. She'd sprawl out on the living room floor, and people would laugh and say, 'Look at that. Perfect prone position.' " Her father, who died when Lenore was eleven, was a topflight competitive marksman; her mother has been firing smallbore rifles for 24 years, last year won the National Women's Any Sight Championship. Stepfather Marvin Driver is a crack pistol shot and longtime director of the National...
...absurd concessions to civilized living-the one overwhelming fact about it is that the great mountains and forests of the U.S. are such indestructible marvels, and so mysteriously instructive to man's nature, that even the most unabashed dude and his togetherness-mad neighbor in the sprawl of Tent City return from a camping trip stronger for their experience...