Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been so lucky. In Bombay in 1949, he managed to rent a comfortable apartment from a Moslem lady who had moved to England. Lubar soon began to receive fat, special-delivery letters from her, in which she complained about her domestic troubles. As the troubles mounted, the letters got thicker. Lubar read and answered them patiently, fearful that any break in the correspondence might put an end to his tenancy. Apparently this conduct satisfied the landlady. Lubar wasn't put out on the sunbaked street...
Holes & Lumps. Ritchie's show begins with some of the early giants: Auguste Rodin's skin-smooth St. John the Baptist. with its supple lines and easy Renaissance grace; Arietide Maillol's pensive Mediterranean, heavier and thicker; Constantin Brancusi's early abstractions. All the abstractions of the '20s and '30s, says Ritchie, flowed out of the work and theory of those three men. Rodin used to say that sculpture was merely "the hole and the lump"; his admirers carried the idea to a ruthlessly literal conclusion...
...Gorillas have very thin lips; whites' lips are thicker; Negro lips are thick...
...which speeders could kill themselves at higher speeds. The traffic light, the yellow line, the parking lot, the parking meter, the underground garage, the one way street, the motorcycle cop and the traffic ticket had all blossomed amid the monoxide fumes - and traffic had gone right on getting thicker and noisier year by year...
...history were globefish-gutted, puffed, dried, and filled with live fireflies. The lanterns that pleased Hirohito's grandfather, and have been a delight ever since, are more complex. They are designed to transform candlelight into globes of muted color. Each one requires up to 120 bamboo strips, no thicker than toothpicks, which are bound together with silk threads to make a collapsible frame. The frame is covered with eight sections of silk or oiled paper, painted with traditional figures. Gluing the shell to the frame is the hardest part of the job and is done mainly in the spring...