Word: swollenness
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...victims had a swollen temple and another had a bloody face...
...area last week, it was all around him. Serbian shells rained down, one a second at times, and 20 or more people died every day. Morillon drove in over a snow-covered mountain track and encountered the reality of Srebrenica: refugees trudging south from captured towns had swollen the population from 9,000 to as many as 80,000. Everywhere there were ragged, hungry crowds, sleeping in the snow, huddling around sputtering bonfires in sub-zero temperatures...
...victims had a swollen temple and another had a bloody face...
...outside the museum is an arresting street presence, while his naked nuclear family inside -- father, mother, daughter and son, all exactly the same size -- is distinctly spooky in a way that derives from Magritte. Byron Kim's Belly Paintings, 1992, representing six different hues of skin, each a gracefully swollen sac of solid color, are beautiful metaphors of the human body...
...work. The second was after 1860, when he was fired for a time by Le Charivari. Nobody can guess how many watercolors and drawings he turned out during these interludes -- one of his writer friends, Theodore de Banville, remembered a studio full of "cartons overflowing with drawings, so swollen that they could not be shut" -- but only a tiny fraction of them has survived. Quite a lot of that fraction went on view last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in "Daumier Drawings," jointly organized by the Met and the Stadelsche Kunstinstitut of Frankfurt...