Word: swimming
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...Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing act of skill the picture itself is, done in 1618 by a 19-year-old boy who wanted to display his total control over surface texture, form and light, from the transparency of the oil in which the eggs swim to the knife's curved shadow on a bowl to the marvelous fugue of circles and ellipses, melon and cooking vessels, that fills the lower third of the canvas...
...sojourn at the Delaware shore, Delia takes a walk down the beach and veers right toward their rented cottage, where she hitches a ride with the roof repairman. Some time later, she gets out at a small inland town and sets about buying some clothes to substitute for her swim togs. After that, she must find food and a place to sleep. Larger questions, such as what on earth she thinks she is doing, are submerged in the search for necessities...
...have experienced this effect personally--I was a first year member of the University of Illinois Men's Swim team when it was eliminated for a combination of Title IX and budgetary reasons...
Hamoudi singled out as an example a mural,retouched by Adam J. Cohen '95, which said: "It'sall true....it's a dirty house. They all sleeptogether. They all swim naked in the pool...
...this old-fashioned show, McAnuff and his team have made splendid use of computer-graphic wizardry: buildings rise and fall on screens in the background, rockets climb, clouds swim past--there is even an erupting volcano. It must be spewing some kind of happy dust in the theater, rendering all but irrelevant the fact that many of the jokes still fall flat and that the story's resolution, even by fairy-tale standards, comes too easily. Will today's theatergoers let such things bother them? This appealing production urges us all--whether we are pursuing business success or just...