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...birth, the midwife had ready a piece of wet paper; if the father approved, she would stifle the unwanted infant...
Trails at Sugarbush are varied and, by Eastern standards, long. Fairly lengthy run-outs at the bottom may necessitate a bit of walking on wet snow days, but the top of the mountain should be good enough to make this worth while...
When Pather Panchali leans towards the neo-realist, its most striking scenes show Auntie's hollow, shrewd, dying face; it pictures her eating wet meal with long, bony fingers, wiping dirt off her crackled skin, hobbling pitifully around the yard. At intervals she has snarling verbal bouts with Mother, who, though warm-hearted, is not the ideal of the Ladie's Home Journal. In fact, Mother often wishes Old Auntie would drop dead...
...rain and the wet dripping, in the dawn and the shine drying...
...ceramists retreated to their studios in self-conscious revolt against the standardization of machine-tooled objects, the renaissance is now in full swing from Manhattan's Greenwich Village to London's Chelsea, with thousands of potters pumping their wheels and smudging their smocks as they "throw" the wet spinning clay. One of the most indefatigable sponsors of the revival is Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts Director Anna Olmsted, who launched a series of national ceramic shows in 1932, this year invited entries from ten European countries, Canada and Hawaii. Some $3,200 in prizes was awarded...