Word: warm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...else, has been the source of its fascination to other painters. In rendering appearances, every artist has a code of some sort -- a way in which the licks and smears of colored mud on cloth manage, seemingly without intervention from the viewer, to recompose themselves as hard shiny metal, warm flesh, wind-ruffled grass or the sweaty sheen of a horse's flank, all in the blink of an eye. But no artist seems as explicit about this legerdemain as Velazquez. At 20, as The Waterseller attests, he was already a virtuoso of appearances. To be able to record both...
Aerobics begins with five or 10 minutes of "warm-up." (For those not fluent in Aerobicspeak, "warm-up" means extreme pain...
...effort to save time during "warm-up," I offered to cut my leg muscles with a hedgeclipper. Satan just smiled. I don't think she heard me, though. She always smiles. She is probably smiling right...
...After "warm-up," Satan turns on music that the CIA used effectively for many years to get information from captured spies. The music usually juxtaposes a verb--such as "push" or "beat"--with the word "it" and repeats this inventive combination for 10 minutes at a time...
When Gov. Rafael Hernandez-Colon of Puerto Rico made an official visit to Cambridge in March 1987, the University gave him and Harvard's Puerto Rican community a warm reception. The Harvard Foundation presented to Hernandez-Colon an award "for outstanding contributions to governmental leadership and international cooperation...