Word: cheekes
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...infringing human and civic rights." Although the authorities have promised to investigate the event, Poles expect no results. When the Pope spotted the dead boy's mother in a crowded Warsaw church, he spoke to her softly for several moments, then embraced her and kissed her on the cheek...
...have a nasty habit of . . . surviving," sneered Kamal Khan as perplexity twitched in his left cheek...
...Cupid Gets Stupid." Among his guidelines: do not compliment women for wearing appropriate business dress; be sure to tell your employer if you are bringing a gay lover to a formal company occasion. Mazzei offers a couple of pages of suggestions on the issue of a kiss on the cheek, warning that it can often end up with "a clash of eyeglass frames and a lot of confusion." When conducting an office affair, Mazzei recommends discretion and closed doors. He suggests that anyone who walks in on two co-workers should beat a hasty retreat and pretend that...
...remember when I saw you in a high chair," one little girl was told with the pinch of her cheek. "So what?" she demanded, pulling her color-coded class cap further down over her eyes...
...same way, Chia alludes to De Chirico (not the prewar master of strange, oneiric cityscapes, but the De Chirico of the 1930s, with his kitschy antique pretensions) and, more reconditely, to the paintings of De Chirico's brother, who took the name Alberto Savinio. With tongue in cheek, Chia has assembled a whole secondhand wardrobe of classical nostalgia: a painting like Figures with Flag and Flute, 1983, with its bearded sage listening to the pipings of a young musician amid the rubble of some temple, thus manages to be both knowing and undemanding. It evokes complicity; artist and viewer...