Word: windblown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...West in general, which he writes about often. "Unfortunately, widening contributes to erosion and drainage problems." Though an avid jogger based in the Mile High City since 1994, Woodbury admits he was winded by the time he reached the top of Mount Bierstadt, where he spent a very windblown hour interviewing hikers at 14,060 ft. And did we mention his aversion to heights? Never mind. He said the hard part was coming down...
...happens to the ones he dirties so exuberantly in the studio? Does he throw them all away? BAM!) When chef Mario Batali visits--that's "Molto Mario," of Food Network fame--he'd better bring a mop. I tried his advice to let food fall on a plate "like windblown Zen mastery," and it fell on the floor...
...courting the plain but gentle Nuala solely from his neck up, in thoughts and dreams and the occasional rounding of his lips. Drifting among blackouts, hallucinations and long days of morphine-muted delirium, he stitches together a history for Nuala as an archetypal carefree country girl, all windblown red hair and stylized pink cheeks. But since Blatchley is also an intellectual (his police beat was forged and stolen art), he isn't satisfied with his first-draft images. As he revises and colors them in, he achieves a union with Nuala that, against all odds, isn't totally one-sided...
...what his advisers did not--that staying home would hurt him more than going, because it would further undermine a reputation for deep seriousness that's taken a beating in the windblown Clinton White House. "I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously," Gore wrote in Earth in the Balance. "When caution breeds timidity, a good politician listens to other voices...
...example, the projection facing the exhibit's entrance flicks slowly from a barely legible Walter Benjamin quotation on a computer screen to a fuzzy video image of a building sporting another quote on windblown banner. To compensate for the poor image quality and slow scene change, each quotation is re-printed on plaques next to the projection...