Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support, giving a suave play of shadow in the folds. "I think of the curves from the canvas as somehow fleshy, body-like," he says. But they could also suggest landscape, as Riverfall (1969) showed: an undulating expanse, 22 ft. wide, sprayed and delicately washed with green, evoking the wet meadows and spring hedgerows of the English countryside...
...pushed over the 90° mark. Finally, he ordered them to top off their preseason drill with a quick run around the field. Halfway through the run, one of the players collapsed, and the doctor who examined him quickly discovered why. The youngster's body was not wet with perspiration but hot and dry. He had suffered heat stroke, and only by rapidly cooling his overheated body with cold towels did the doctor prevent him from suffering serious brain damage or even dying...
...group broke up to get the boat ready, the atmosphere was relaxed, happy, almost festive. Chris Ernst, who seemed to be the team joker--the T-shirt she was wearing said "Slippery When Wet...isn't everybody?"--was keeping up a running commentary on the process of preparing the boat. At one point she came in making a low whistling noise by blowing through her hands, and soon everyone was sputtering through their clenched fists...
...line. The Japanese-born Kenzo noted that his styles "had affinities with the Chinese look, so we carried on the Chinese line." Among the first U.S. designers to introduce proletarian posh was Cinnamon Wear's Britta, whose workers' drop-shouldered jackets and raincoats flopped like wet rice when they came out last year; now the firm has trouble keeping up with demand...
...this particular afternoon it was hot and wet out. perhaps 95 degrees. and the fourists, wearing garish T.shirts emblazoned with racy messages that they had bought in the junk shops that lined the streets, were streaming by, red and sweating. There was a mediocre jazz band playing down on the corner, loud. The band, which plays all day long on the cornrt below my friend's apartment, is run by the cotoner of New Orieans, a man named Dr.Frank Minyard who decided one day that being coroner was boring and so called some of his friends, put on a Hawaiian...