Word: swollenness
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...have painted The Sleeping Gypsy, by now perhaps the most famous dream image in Western art. The silhouette of a sniffing lion, with one unwinking yellow eye and a tail stiffly outstretched, its tip erect as though charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like a pale lunar egg, hanging on the brown sand as the moon hangs in the blue night...
...battle has long since extended from Jewish themes to a concern for children everywhere. "The specter of starvation is not something consigned to the '30s and '40s," he says. "I look at the screen and see the swollen bellies and haunted eyes of the very young in Cambodia, in Ethiopia, in South America. I could have been that child. I was that child. And I must make a gesture...
...specific issue, loans to debt-burdened farmers, was never resolved, only postponed until this week. The early outbreak of political hardball darkened prospects that Congress and the Administration can later cope successfully with the big domestic tasks of this year: enacting a budget that will significantly reduce swollen deficits, and pushing through sweeping tax reform. Both efforts will require the kind of bipartisan cooperation within Congress and with the White House that was sadly lacking in the farm-credit fight. Choosing a military metaphor, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici said of the farm-loan battle: "This is just...
...necks, the bellowing guides, the august patterns on the remote ceiling. Up on the scaffolding, where the restorers are at work, things look quite different. The noise has receded; it is more like a hum of bees. The frescoes have moved forward, monopolizing one's whole field of attention, swollen, enormous in their intensity...
Doctors in Bhopal were growing increasingly concerned about the long-term effects of the chemical. Many of the early victims of the poison gas were suffering from secondary infections, especially pneumonia. Even soldiers who had arrived in the city 30 hours after the gas escaped began to develop swollen eyes and debilitating coughs. Indeed, at times last week it seemed that the Bhopal tragedy might never end. When refugees from the city arrived in the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh, they were suspected of carrying fatally contagious diseases. In many cases, family and friends shunned them. -By Pico Iyer...