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...salt on the bottom probably dissolved, but the rest was protected by sediment washed down from the land. As the sediment grew thicker, it pressed on the underlying salt, and the salt (comparatively light and plastic) billowed up through it like slow-motion bubbles rising in a viscous liquid...
Next day the first of some 400 P.W.s sloughed through Panmunjom's red, viscous mud to the explanation tents, chanting "Death to Communism!" The first P.W. balked at his tent, fear taut in every line of his body, and cried: "No! No! I will not go!" He struggled with three Indian guards, and all four burst into the tent. "Please sit down," said the North Korean explainer. The P.W. swore at the explainer in hoarse, rasping Korean: "You are a pig and a dog and a descendant of pigs and dogs." He kicked at the explainer's table...
...every ensemble can move from a Haydn quartet to the viscous impressionism of Ravel without losing some authenticity en route. But the Budapest group played Ravel's F Major Quartet with all the suavity of tone and relaxation of phrasing that the piece required. In thematic structure and general outline the work is similar to the better-known Debussy quartet, but the contrasts seem much sharper here. The long, meditative third movement and the very short, intense finale demand virtuosity as well as restraint--two qualities for which the Budapest Quartet is famous. Ravel's skillful use of the quartet...
Today he "paints" with thick pastes, viscous mixtures of zinc oxide and heavy varnish. Sometimes he adds sand to make a kind of mortar, applies it with large, dull putty knives. The soft colors he uses -rose, brown, dull reds and yellow-spread erratically as his "empasto" heaves into unexpected shapes and dries...
...base of the Winsor formula is still a viscous glob of sex. In Amber, it was diluted in a little English history. In Star Money, it is stirred into the well-publicized life of the author herself. That is not to say that Star Money is autobiographical. Novelist Winsor primly asserts: "This novel is in no sense autobiographical." Yet the book gives a come-on as broad as the devil's front porch to the thousands who may buy the book for its confessional interest: the heroine, Shireen Delaney, is a beautiful doll who at 26 publishes a historical...