Word: strayed
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...Italian artist Alighiero Boetti, the Frenchman Daniel Buren or the Australian Robert Hunter. Boetti's way of artmaking is to cover (or have his assistants cover) large sheets of paper with millions of tiny strokes of a ballpoint pen, thus turning all the paper blue except for some stray commas and capital letters which are left white. This laborious doodling produces now and again some pretty moire effects, like watered silk, but that is all, and the all is virtually nothing. It is, however, more than Robert Hunter's piece, which consists of pale gray rectangular grids...
...village street from his house, for instance, to the post office, but he cannot then imagine himself turning around and facing the same street in the opposite direction. Rather than pivot easily on toe and heel, he must with hideous effort swing his entire dream street, post office, taxis, stray dogs and all, 180° around on the axis of his own mad self. Eventually, obsession invades reality. He walks to the end of a real village street, cannot turn, and falls in a paralytic fit. Thus does Nabokov poke dignified fun at himself. The novel is wholly lighthearted...
...Janice Ott, 23, who worked for King County Juvenile Court in nearby Seattle and was known as a very sympathetic person - "the type that would take in stray dogs and cats," a sheriffs lieutenant put it. That attribute may have been fatal: Janice was last seen wheeling her bicycle to the Lake Sammamish parking lot, accompanied by a young man with his arm in a sling. After her disappearance, at least four women recalled that they had been approached that day by an affable stranger who called himself Ted and wore a sling on his arm. Ted asked each woman...
That's kibbles in the bowl for stray puppies but not exactly money in the bank for producers of romantic spy thrillers...
...then it moved on and there was no time for him to pause. Mezvinsky was back in the hearing room making his notes, stealing stray thoughts. "We are all humans in this. We are all on trial. John Doar and Albert Jenner are good men, doing a good job under fire. The chairman has grown immensely in these weeks. We have to understand the strategy being used by the White House. We must understand better our own role. We cannot run away from this...