Word: wetness
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...harsh lights, without shade, without composition, without the lovely mystery of color. I went about with my brush touching up and toning down. A very pretty chiaroscuro you'll find in my track!" A failure in America, he goes to England, where the charm of the rain-wet countryside convinces him that life must be gentler there. He visits an aristocratic relative, dreams of living on his sumptuous estate and marrying his sister. But though the English countryside is gentle, the sour old aristocrat is not. After insulting the American, he brutally throws him out. "What a dream!" murmurs...
...Buckingham Palace along with squads of Household Cavalry, the rains came. The Queen balanced a royal bumbershoot, but President Tubman had only his black topper to ward off the downpour as he waved to the smattering of onlookers along their route. At the palace, the Queen gave a very wet Tubman a well-earned honor-the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath...
...slums of London who takes a customer home with her and soon finds that she is in a family way. The infant boy is sent to America. He returns after 20 years, and by stunning coincidence enters the tawdry cellar nightclub that his mother now owns. The woman stares wet-eyed at her long-lost son. She says nothing, poignantly. The youth must never know that this bulging madam is his mother...
...Wet, Dry. Sebring's establishment, which has doubled in size since he first set up shop in 1959 (last year he grossed about $50,000, expects to do $100,000 this year), is a ten-chair, swinging bedlam, with a hi-fi dishing out a diet of progressive jazz and the recorded works of Frankie and other customers. It has a red and black floor, Indian brass hanging lamps, paneled partitions and-in Sebring's private cell-velvet drapes. A visit begins with a mandatory shampoo (Sebring, like most of the "new wave" of barbers, prefers to work...
...customer's first time, then the master himself will study the mass of wet hair for several minutes, like a sculptor contemplating a virgin block of granite...