Word: vious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from sticks, chicken wire and mud by the California artist Deborah Butterfield. There is also a hilarious piece of funkiness by a Texas sculptor, James Surls, representing a tornado chewing through the roof of a church; Surls' debt to that master of buckeye surrealism, H.C. Westermann, is ob vious enough, but the image has a wobbly comic-strip blatancy about it that carries conviction...
...hospital where they charged $4 a weak purr." Heywood Broun, drinking a bootleg liquor, sighed, "Any port in a storm." "The groans that greet such puns," claims Milton Berle (who once joked that he had cut off his nose to spite his race), "are usually en vious. The other person wishes he had said...
...long, short and average sleepers all spend about the same amount of time in what research ers call "slow-wave sleep," the deep and relatively dreamless state, totaling some 75 minutes a night, when people are presumed to get their real recu peration from the activities of the pre vious day. Additionally, Hartmann concluded that long sleepers spent nearly twice as much of the night as others in REM (rapid eye movement) sleep - a state in which the sleeper's brain is as active as in full consciousness...