Word: balled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This sense of distance is taken up within the piece by a floating sphere, which also tracks the house, dropping periodically in and out of our vision. Inside the silvery ball, like the Good Witch of the North, lives a small woman. She is born at the beginning of the piece as a bubble of water from the mouth of one of the Wilsons, a mouth that sucks her back...
...richness of the experience, like the woman trapped in the ball of water, we are forced to navigate blindly, without volition, like a surveillance camera floating at fixed speed. And in the end we are frightened less at what we see than how we see it: fragmented, choked, hovering, weird...
...impossible to take Jordan out of the game completely," Long said. "Even if you can keep him from scoring, he will just dish the ball off. He wreaks a lot of havoc...
...threw the ball at me or something," said Monti after the earlier game. "So I sort of gave her [a slap], and that...
...with shoves, elbows and the occasional stranglehold until he can't take it anymore and retaliates. Because of what I like to call the Murphy's Law of Blind Referees, the retaliating player gets caught and called for the foul, while the one who instigated the shoving gets the ball back along with a new 24-second clock. I worry that we as voters may be prone to Blind Referee syndrome, forgetting who started the mudslinging first, thereby giving the advantage to the guy with the ball, the money and the longer-running negative commercial...