Word: vein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large kitchen-dining-living-bedroom that looks out through windows over a tidal inlet of Kachemak Bay to the village of Homer and the bluffs above the town. A big, black, Franklin stove warms the cabin, burning lumps of soft coal that are washed from an exposed vein in the cliffs on the other side of the inlet and carried by the waves to the beach by the cabin. Their dinner table is a huge telephone cable spool, sanded, stained and polished to a rich shine; a bunch of dried wildflowers and some fresh ginger hangs from a rafter; neatly...
...what does she stand for? What has she done to be taken seriously or worthy of our time? Do you mean to suggest that she is a representative of the Washington wives? God bless this country and Washington! Do you suggest that she provides the badly needed lighter vein for the whole nation? If so, you should ask the editor of Mad to handle...
Memorial's Dr. Maurice Shils devised a fluid diet that could supply all the protein, vitamins, minerals and carbohydrates that the body needs. A surgeon installed a plastic shunt between an artery and vein in Mrs. Smith's leg. At home, three times a day, she connected this plastic tube to a bottle of Shils' super-soup. Each such "meal" took three hours...
...seemed like the Caspar Milquetoast of the avantgarde. From boyhood, he had managed to ignore or bypass every emotional crisis that might have distracted him from his art. He shrugged off the end of one love affair with Teutonic priggishness. "Since only a few weak poems in the popular vein remained of that adventure," the young artist noted in his diary in 1901, "I was once again completely available for the higher sort of love." He found it a few years later in Lily Stumpf, a pianist of irreproachable virtue, married her, and never looked back...
...sarcastic expose of superstition is vitiated by a focus on the campy quaintness of the old couple and the vulgarity of their revivified daughter (Alaina Warren). The mixing of styles proves particularly annoying in Felder's early appearances as the Devil in military garb: here the low comic vein is salient. With an absurd German accent, Felder conveys about as strong a sense of evil as anyone can with a halfpasted-on moustache and a shrill delivery...