Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring these artistic highs and lows and the audience together, to make them real to each other if only for an evening. In order to survive, in order to continue to provide one hell of a night out, theater has to live and breathe, to laugh and groan and sweat right onto the people in the front row. At that range, the effect is unforgettable...
...fare. In fact, he seems nonplussed that something as bizarre as The Far Side could be so popular or that he could be handsomely paid for letting his imagination race wild. "Maybe it's my blue-collar background, but work meant to me that you come home covered with sweat," he says. "Now I just have to brush away the eraser shavings." Larson may dirty his hands soon. He is thinking of turning his backyard into a swamp stocked with salamanders, frogs and koi. And, of course, childhood memories...
...stench of sulfur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood. People stank of sweat and unwashed clothes; from their mouths came the stench of rotting teeth, from their bellies that of onions, and from their bodies, if they were no longer very young, came the stench of rancid cheese and sour milk and tumorous disease...
...been warned about the addictive nature of the game. My father used to tell the story of a fellow who shows up at his home three hours late and drenched with sweat after his weekly round with the boys...
...grind grain, dance a few steps, drift away from each other, then, as the music quickens, come together again. Says Oscar Herrera, 34, a Salvadoran immigrant who directs a San Francisco social-service agency: "The merengue grabs you so much that even if you get tired and soaked in sweat, you can't stop dancing...