Word: swollenness
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...tiny key in a lock. That key is surely borrowed from an odd creature doing the same in several of Picasso's seaside pictures from the late 1920s, when he was flirting with Surrealism. Those elastic Picassos, with their biomorphic figures that are part human, part dirigible, part swollen breast or phallus, turned a key in Bacon. They showed him the way to the nightmare distortions of anatomy that he arrived at by the end of World War II, a time when living flesh had been twisted every which...
...knife as deftly as a pencil. I could give porcini mushrooms a sponge bath with my eyes closed. I knew the recipe for egg pasta by heart and they counted on me to make the daily batch of dough. By the end of my stay, my ankles were swollen, my forearms were burnt, and I couldn’t eat another bite of pasta. But I couldn’t have been more thankful. Maybe there are easier ways to become comfortable in the kitchen, but who wants easy? At some point between my fifth time chopping wild boar...
...Sanlu scandal has revived longstanding concerns about the safety of Chinese products. In 2004, 13 babies in eastern China died after they were fed milk made with powder that contained little nutritional value. That incident, know as the "big headed babies" scandal because the malnourished children developed swollen heads, touched off domestic demands for greater scrutiny of Chinese food products. Last year, the food supply chain became an international concern when a series of faulty export products were uncovered including fish contaminated with banned drugs, toothpaste and cough syrup made with toxic chemicals and lead paint used on toys...
...victim, who refused medical attention, had a swollen lip and two bumps on his forehead, the advisory said...
...pregnant - lost power and water during Ike. They woke up this morning to find water lapping at their garage, and he wanted to know how much higher the water was expected to rise. Unfortunately, the answer is a lot. The seven bayous that run through and around Houston are swollen, and the rain is still coming down. (See photos of Hurricane Ike here...