Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find Degas's true feelings about women, one should consult the pastels and oil paintings of nudes that he made, at the height of his powers, in the 1880s and '90s. Their bodies are radiant, worked almost to a thick crust of pastel matte and blooming with myriad strokes within their tough winding contours. But they are also mechanisms of flesh and bone, all joints, protuberances, hollows, neither "personalities" nor pinups. (One sees why Duchamp, inventor of the mechanical bride, adored and copied Degas...
Studying the subway map for promising T stops,I tried to make decisions as a newcomer, but it'shard to erase previous knowledge; GovernmentCenter's stretch of bricks and thick financialbuildings seemed too forbidding. I decided on ParkStreet, where I could imagine "help wanted" signspropped among the jumble of windows facing thetrees of the Common...
...city's Riverwalk and in hotel lobbies and elevators, where the songsters break out in "woodshedding" -- the impromptu jam-session-like warbling of old chestnuts -- the camaraderie runs thick. At the Hyatt Regency, three old-timers search the crowd for a baritone. "Come over here, Jamie," one hollers. Let Me Call You Sweetheart suddenly gushes forth, halting a bellman in his tracks...
...gymnastics, officials were also in the thick of the fight. Judge Ellen Berger, a pin-eyed East German with the soul of Leo Durocher, detected a U.S. irregularity involving the bat boy. Poor Rhonda Faehn: three years ago, at 14, she left Coon Rapids, Minn., for Houston to tumble with the other dolls at the trick knee of the Rumanian defector Bela Karolyi. When she missed making the Olympic team by 0.1 point, he brought her along as a roustabout. Docked 0.5 points for Faehn's harmless presence on the platform, the U.S. women lost the bronze medal...
Nisht Geferlach, which roughly means "no big deal" in Yiddish, wafts into the thick summer night from the steps of the white clapboard Grace United Methodist Church in Plainfield, Vt. The Yiddish folk music that originated in Eastern Europe carries across the lawn as children dance in ragged circles under the pines. Their parents sit on the old stone wall, clapping along with Lebn Zol Kolombus (Long Live Columbus), a staple of the old Yiddish theater that once thrived along New York City's Second Avenue. The music is as mystifying as it is exotic to most folks in these...