Word: sweating
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...pearls were beads of sweat...
...show this much--there is a certain incongruity between say, the spare stripes or chevrons of Kenneth Noland and the explanations the artist delivers in a North Carolina drawl. Or, equally incongruous, the contrast between Frank Stella--sitting on the floor of his studio, dressed in an old sweat shirt and looking for all the world like Woody Allen slightly lisping his reply to the charge that his paintings are cold and detached--and his paintings themselves. If the incongruity itself is not the best proof of the charge it at least explains how it originated...
...cannabis; sleep with an aging love child off the Sunset Strip; dream of a pop apocalypse populated by everyone from Bobby Kennedy to James Earl Ray; and recite lines like "I wanna walk in the kind of rain that never washes perfume away." Under the circumstances, that gully of sweat staining the back of his pajamas is certainly understandable...
Paul does the taping in his office. "It's easy to get couples into a hassle," he said. "Whatever problem they've got is bound to come out in front of you, so that's no sweat...
Meanwhile, productivity has declined following expropriations that have led workers to feel there is little need to show sweat now that foreign bosses are out. Industrial production in October, the most recently recorded month, fell 7% from the same period a year earlier, and farm output in 1972 was down roughly 10% from 197 1. The quality of production has slumped in nearly every category: most Chilean bread, for instance, is now a coarse, sour, brown sludge that produces more gas than nourishment. Allende is talking about handing back to Chilean businessmen some of the companies that his government earlier...