Word: thread
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...trading allegations broke. She snapped that the accusations against her were "ridiculous," and then brandishing her knife at the head of cabbage she was turning into coleslaw, she concluded "I'm just going to focus on my salad." In a flash, we saw the Martha behind the fluffy 300-thread count towels, the one alleged to have fired her gardener over pennies and to turn to ice the minute the klieg lights...
...There’s been no thread of gender running through people’s work,” she adds. “There was a time when if there was not that thread, at least everybody was female...
...laughs, “I don’t know. I’m feeling kind of lazy.” The seniors stay seated, but other female members of the audience, six clad only in black bras, one wearing a sheer black top, and one with nary a thread covering her breasts come to the front of the theater and pair off. Goodwin and Ahn watch as the girls gyrate to electric music, strip each other’s clothes off and engage in tongue-heavy kissing...
...with work. Rosen, who wrote Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity (Nicholas-Hays), cites the movie About Schmidt, in which Jack Nicholson's title character, a retired insurance actuary, is saved from aimlessness and depression by his connection through a charity to a child in Africa. "That little thread of contact with a child outside was also Schmidt's child inside," says Rosen. When it comes to exploring, through therapy, what that inner voice might be saying, however, many men consider such an approach "unmanly," Rosen says...
...family's son gone bad," Cartier-Bresson grew up surrounded by art, and it has always been his first love. His father kept a sketchbook and his uncle Louis was a painter who studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Villa Médicis. His wealthy Parisian thread-manufacturing family lived in a grand bourgeois neighborhood near the Europe Bridge, famously painted by Gustave Caillebotte. The teenage Cartier-Bresson worked in the studio of society painter Jacques-Emile Blanche, and later studied with Cubist painter André Lhote, honing his geometrically precise eye for composition at the Louvre...