Word: chin
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...leaned back and folded her arms under Baby Watson's silk-screened chin. "You'll be hearing from Baby Watson!" she told...
...sure when the end came, but I was suddenly alerted to H. Wadsworth's plight when a concerned patron behind me leaned forward and said, "Excuse me, but I think your friend has frozen. I believe that's an icicle on his chin...
...Sills with countless opportunities for lambent fioriture, whistling-high E-flats, and howling farce. Her windup salute, which starts somewhere near her right thigh and then circles deliciously upward, has to be seen to be believed. So does the way she gives her dancing master a knee in the chin, or wraps him around her neck while learning to do the quadrille...
...intended to lead to a purge, and it was controlled-with "surgical precision," as a Canadian analyst put it-when it threatened to become too disruptive. Last August an article in the theoretical journal Red Flag blamed internal bickering and factionalism for the fall of the brutal, short-lived Chin dynasty of the 3rd century B.C. This subtle piece of historical allegory was written by one Lo Szu-ting; Sinologists regard him as a spokesman for Mao-if not Mao himself writing under a pen name. Since then, there has been scarcely a murmur from the radicals...
...will photograph herself in a mirror--in a funhouse with her grand-children or in the window of a junkshop on San Francisco's Geary Street. Her figure is a strange one, a tiny body swathed in a black cape, an intriguingly wrinkled, amused looking face with a receding chin, the light catching the mirrors of the small, multi-colored Indian cap she always wears. "I photograph anything that can be exposed to light," she says, but complains about too much philosophizing on photography. "People will just have to look at my stuff and make up their own minds...