Word: wet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Passim's, besides serving coffee and good music, is showing "I Ching" watercolors by Martha Jane Mount. Mount works with a very wet brush loaded with strong colors, which she allows to spread and pool in seemingly random patterns. The lush atmospheric effects and abstract patterns Mount creates, many suggestive of land or seascapes, really need a larger format than she gives them in these small paintings. Perhaps the best watercolors are the few in which she uses a dryer brush and allows the color and texture of her paper to play a more forceful role in the designs...
There could be an evolution explosion in the wet season," said Herpetologist Michael Tyler. "It could get into billa-bongs [river pools] and replace the native species." Worse still, added John Lake, director of the Northern Territory's Department of Forestry, Fisheries, Wild Life and National Parks, "it would threaten our smaller native species-and that's equivalent to threatening the koala and the platypus...
...stage is wet with human sweat. Costume change again. Jobriath has less than a minute to peel out of his leotards. Johnson's Baby Powder eases him into a skin-tight, black leatherette suit for the finale. The lapels point upward, framing his face in devilish horns. Gyrating in simulated pain, Jobriath gasps out the words: "Take me, I'm, I'm yours." He collapses against the piano, and the audience applauds. Jobriath gives a usual entertainer's farewell: "Thank you, thank you. Have a nice night. Have a nice life...
...conscious of the fact that she has made her husband's life dreadfully dull, but she is of neither mind nor body to change the course of things. The husband, were he to remain faithful to the invalid and to convention, would be condemned to the life of a wet-nurse in his small and somewhat shabby apartment...
...looks like a forkball." His techniques are so refined by now, though, that it is doubtful anyone could tell for sure. He certainly will not face the kind of complaint that he received from former San Francisco Giant Catcher Tom Haller when Perry was first learning how to wet the ball. "Gay, please cut down on the load," Haller pleaded in the middle of one game. "I'm getting drenched...