Word: staring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst conditions are centered about 20 miles west of Enid (pop. 52,700). Moore spins his wheels, and the chase is on again. In Fairview, 30 miles west of Enid, several pickup trucks are parked along the road. Next to them, lanky farmers in caps and blue jeans stare at the turbulent, darkening sky. Women carrying grocery bags peer from the doorway of the IGA market. A handful of motorists watch from the refuge of an APCO gas station down the street...
Fortunately, Skow managed to get Baker talking-about himself, his humor, and the process by which he produces three columns a week. The first step: hours of vacant staring over a typewriter. Says Skow, who has dabbled with humorous writing himself in 23 years as a reviewer and journalist: "When I stare off into space, all I see are overdue phone bills. Baker gets a funny idea three times a week, while I get one about every four years. He is astounding...
...used to get all kinds of diseases...yeah, eating dirt, like...I lived in New Jersey and wrote poetry when I was really young. And I was always thinkin', 'Why don't all these people just leave me alone, andand, and let me read my comics and stare at my hand or write poetry or sing, or or, just take it easy. And I guess it's good that I can sing about it, but it's like a tragedy because there are a lot of people who can't sing and they listen to the radio...
When I mention his name now people stare blankly. Some of them even think that "A Small Circle of Friends" is just a cute movie title...
...number of his drawings to making strange pasiches of immature Picasso, the artist of the blue period, with his wistful clowns and phthisic women. Kitaj's three Bathers, with their iridescent blooms of pastel and general air of tentative anxiety, pay homage to the blue period. But they stare from the paper with the look of rough creatures trapped in an alien element, refugees from Goya and Velásquez as well as from the 20th century. This ability to suggest cultural continuity in the midst of a general malaise may be the final rea son why Kitaj...