Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aloha. Her rich, deep voice gave shape to the complex and poetic chant, capturing everyone's attention and setting the tone for the hula dances to follow. It was clear, that this would not be one of those oft encountered theme party caricatures of Hawaiian culture where ti leaf skirts are traded for cellophane ones, where canned pineapple wedges thrown on pizza qualify as a tropical Hawaiian feast. This was pretty close to the real thing. Authenticity of Hawaiian culture is hard to come by, especially on the main-land and when found, it is a rare treat for mainlanders...
...Coen Brothers' movie of course brings us to the question of the new national underground lingo necessary eventually to replace African-American dialects, in everything from gangsta to funk to run-of-the-mill infusions. Fargo gave us the possibility of Minnesotan, but the limited variation--a few maple-leaf reminscent phonetic twists and an assortment of pause formations--obviously means it won't pan out. '80s surfer lingo didn't last too long, nor can computerese. So, geeoun before the geeoun's through, and I think latinitata will res out. Nice...
Throughout the meal, Burger argued that it was unconscionable to scoop the court, that using information from clerks, whom he assumed were the source of our story, was tantamount to wiretapping the Supreme Court. Each time he launched into a new argument, he would consult a loose-leaf binder he had brought with him. In order to hide this from his dinner partners, he would rock his chair back and put his foot on the edge of our dining room table. And each time he rocked back, the Chief Justice of the United States of America advertised that...
...most of Schoenhof's customers never leaf through the new copies of Madame Bovary or browse in the extensive children's book section. The store sells two-thirds of its books through mail-order, shipping to individuals and institutions around the world...
...somewhat stolid, ruminative artist compared with a virtuoso like Picasso. It's true that there's no erotic content in his work, and little manifest lyricism or spontaneity. He painted with the steady determination, from form to closed form, of a silkworm chewing its way across a mulberry leaf. Much of his work is not Cubist at all, if Cubism means fragmentation. It was massively built and integrated, and it buried all traces of its construction process. But it could also be very surprising, and in its insistent reduction of the human form to mechanics, extremely weird--particularly when Leger...