Word: stumped
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Those teeth and that lanky Viking countenance weren't enough. On the stump the son of the onetime heavyweight champion of the world. Gene Tunney, came across wooden, a" fugitive from a high school rhetoric class, arms shooting out stiffly, phrases as self-conscious as the morning after. Keeping his eye on November, not wanting to alienate anyone, Tunney tried to keep it moderate, walk that middle line. Only that's where the ennui...
...Capitol was coming closer, but my candle was down to a small stump. I wanted so badly for it to last until we got there. We passed a pair of cops, poised with night sticks. They were bored...
OTHER students concentrate on more traditional, though terribly exacting, struggles with draughtsmanship and realism. Sarah Holly Alderman's "Undergrowth" is an incredibly dense and detailed drawing full of grasses and ferns and wild plants. Her background tree stump floats a little in space, but the range of textures she gets out of her pencil is truly admirable. And Steve Selkowitz's "Mantis," my favorite sculpture in the show, is actually a three-dimensional kind of draughtsmanship. A yard-long praying mantis that waits high on a wall, the piece is built of soldered wires-lines in space-and is disconcertingly...
...says. That was the first, you know. And so groovy. But now, in this dry world, the young brave needs to drink water, so Merilee gives to him her knowledge of where the car and the canteen are. Turn left at the split pine, and right at the stump. And maybe put on your trousers before you go down to the road...
...always, there is Auden modestly on the stump, or in the pulpit, but steadily aware of the dangers of pontificating. In the title poem, he invokes his Age of Anxiety themes, then introduces a second voice to cut himself down: "What fun and games you find it to play/ Jere-miah-cum-Juvenal . . ." Suddenly yet a third voice yawns: "Go to sleep now for God's sake!/ You both will feel better by breakfast time...