Word: blading
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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EVERY leaf and blade of grass swarms with life, the earth is alive and stirs beneath me, everything rings in one chord, then the soul rejoices and flies in the immeasurable space around me. There is no up and down any more, no beginning and no end, I hear and feel the living breath of God . . ." Dr. Leary? Alan Watts? No; it was thus, in 1802, that a 25-year- old painter named Philipp Otto Runge set down his ecstatic nature worship in a letter to his elder brother. It may be that Runge had what most of us have...
...successful minidramas are in the self-spoofing tradition pioneered by the old Bert and Harry spots for Piel's beer, which grew out of the routines of the men behind the animation, Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding (TIME, Oct. 19). Like the meatball ad, Gillette razor blade spots take the viewer into a studio taping session. The best ad has a director trying to induce Pitcher Tom Seaver to describe his shave as "closer." But every time the director says "closer," Seaver merely moves the pack of blades closer to his face or the camera. Eventually the director gives...
...artifices of well-made verse and well-made novel, she convincingly suggests that the overcivilized and the barbarous are one. Yet the Atwood message is beyond formulated pessimism; it has the rhythmic cycling of hope and despair natural to life itself. A lyricism as honest as a blade of grass in a boulder's crack keeps thrusting through. And so marriage, under the toughest scrutiny by Atwood the novelist, eventually is seen by Atwood the poet as "the edge of the receding glacier" where we crouch- where painfully and with wonder...
...Galopin reported that federally-appointed tax collectors often tripled tax rates set in Fort Lamy and pocketed the difference. Nomads wearing tribal Toubou belt daggers were fined $53 for sporting the blade-a Gtiff fine in a country where the annual average income per person is less than...
...Francis Redmond, 50, a businessman from Yonkers, N.Y., had committed suicide three months ago in his Shanghai cell. Redmond, who was serving a life sentence on charges that he had been the "chief American spy" in China, reportedly slashed the veins in his arms and wrists with a razor blade and died from loss of blood...