Word: wetness
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...were just behind you, he'd get totally wiped out. You are so far back inside the wave that it breaks right over your head and around your body. And when you come out in the end, why, you aren't even wet...
BRUNO LUCCHESI-Forum, 1018 Madison Ave. at 79th. The new bronzes of this Italian-born New Yorker, a 1962 Guggenheim fellow, sparkle with candid spontaneity: washerwomen gossip over wet rags, a child quivers on stilts, a peasant Girl Tying Apron seems to be doing the twist. What continually threatens Lucchesi's suspended animations is a manneristic overdose of whimsy. Through...
...psychiatrist who knew the lingo could make a million at the track. Some race horses love mud; others sulk if they get their hooves wet. All horses are brought up on grass, but that does not mean they can run on it. Nobody knows why, or ever will-unless he can talk to horses...
...neat, clean and impersonal as factories, Saarinen decided to come to modern terms with the gargoyle. Given a site over which loomed the 197-ft.-high Gothic gymnasium, he designed his buildings to be "good neighbors." To capture the masonry spirit of nearby older pseudo-Gothic buildings, Saarinen pumped wet concrete into frames that were filled with stones, simulating inexpensively their handcrafted finish...
...Wet Lip. Biographer Vincent Sheean did, and what he did not know then he later learned as house guest of the Lewises at Barnard, Vt., and from the Dorothy Thompson papers at Syracuse University. "Jimmy" Sheean was "too pretty" and had "a wet lower lip," his friend Dorothy noted in her diary, but there was nothing the matter with his eyesight; his book about the private and public life of Dorothy and "Red" Lewis is an extraordinary thing. Involving as it does the privacy of two people recently dead and known to thousands of others who are still living...