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...Kurt Schwitters. Rauschenberg jammed his found objects together with a different kind of abandon. He produced industrial-strength "combines," big pieces in which worlds collided with a bang. Monogram, from 1955 to '59, featured a wooden platform on which stood a stuffed Angora goat with a tire around its waist. It was typical...
...year-old fisherman are grazed from wrists to armpits. A week before, he had clung to the trunk of a palm tree as a 12-foot storm surge carried off his wife, his infant son, and his four-year-old daughter. "My wife tried to hold on to my waist, but the water dragged her away," he says. He clung to the tree for three hours. When he finally descended, the water in his village of Ka Ka Yon still came up to his chest. He found the body of his seven-year-old daughter at the foot...
...both be right about life. And though my cousin is of mixed-blood, like me, and was never particularly religious, his wedding guests included real-deal Hasids: Ultra-Orthodox men chanting and praying and rocking back and forth, in their fedora hats and tzitzit strings hanging around their waist...
...narrative begins with the fictional mother—whose waist-to-hip ratio is already Barbie-esque—bringing her daughter to the office of “Dr. Michael,” an overly muscular male with a medical degree. Here, the mother explains to her daughter: “As I got older my body stretched and I couldn’t fit into my clothes any more. Dr. Michael is going to help fix that and make me feel better.” When the girl asks if the operations will hurt, the mother answers...
...dismounted, his face was submerged in the warm, diaphanous folds of her riding habit. He could smell her perfume intermingled with the musky essence of her being. He felt the muslin sweep down his face, at first in abundance, then diminishing where it closed around her waist, and then there was nothing between them, only his own breath intensely hot against the rising swell of her bosom...