Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn out just over $1,000,000 worth of jewelry, electroplated metals, and baroque Hofmuster silver each year. Strohbach could have gone with a giant state firm, which would have guaranteed him the security that he insists is "very important." But he remained semiprivate because, he says, rubbing his thumb and first two fingers together: "I can make so much more...
SAMSAM! she calls. samsam! she hears. And then a bright hilltop away she spots him. He knows she's calling. He stops to listen and his zooming face is the face of a small boy who has blamed his thumb with his own hammer. He tells Girl the obedient to come and they disappear miserably into the next small valley. Cast out of Eden over a little misunderstanding. And the angel has not a flaming sword but only love to offer them. As she starts barefoot after them, old Alfred whines and the angel tells him "Bad karma Alfred...
...that's not my name," Sam said. Wisdom's sad tolerance for silliness. Big frightened little one so in need, sucking on a big bruised thumb...
...such works to go but up. Even the $230,000 paid for a minor Matisse, Fete des Fleurs a Nice, more than doubled the artist's record price of $106,152, set only a year ago. For Impressionists, the trade's present rule of thumb is that what $1 would buy in 1893 would cost $1,000 today. Monet, anyone...
...food, unlike all other arts, is close to completely investigable to all. We can press our thumb through the skin of an orange and break it apart; smell it, taste it, hear it, use it, squeeze it, chew it, digest it, decompose it, excrete it, put it against our foreheads on hot days and in our pockets on the way to a show. We possess it like no other art. Unlike other arts, it doesn't conceal its etymology quite as completely. The orange is non-figurative, non-metaphorical. The orange, as food, does not stand for something else except...