that Benjamin Franklin liked to sit stark naked in front of his open windows, calling the practice ';taking an air bath'? that in the last days of his life, the actor Steve McQueen lived on a diet largely comprised of boiled alligator skin and apricot pits, washed down with urine? From...
Nedgazedat the calypso-orange horizon. A lapis-blue speck sparkled above it in the deepening violet of a new night sky — Planet Vorton, home. Ned gaped at the corpse-grey horizon. A mold-blue speck festered above it in the deepening black of a smoggy night sky — Planet Vorton, home...
I’ll describe three no-win situations that commonly arise between teens and parents and then suggest some ways out of the trap. The first no-win situation is quarrels over unimportant things . Examples include the color of the teen’s hair, the cleanliness of the bedroom ,the preferred ...
It's best used to describe a knickknack or a small good deed. bailiwick In one's area of interest or authority; the word derives from the area in which a bailiff, a minor court officer, presides. When the V.P. of Sales starts walking around the factory, complain that she's ...
Back in the bulletin board days of the internet, I saw someone describe theirHail, Horror, Hailalbum as “a cross between black metal and music from a soap opera”. That sounded like a phenomenal combination to me—and it is—but it took me a few years to actually track it down. ...
random reasons they have decided to reward the players. Being funny. Being heroic. Being moronic. Bringing snacks. Good penmanship. Good “role-playing” (by which I mean being able to come up with overwrought prose to describe how to swing an axe on a moment’s notice). Whatever. Which...
The Ephesian church was a diverse community of Jews and Gentiles.3. The Ruler of the Power of the AirA reference to Satan, who is depicted as having influence over the world and its systems, leading people away from God.4. Sons of DisobedienceA term used to describe those who live in ...
There’s no better way to make your mom feel loved than to describe to her in extreme detail how you regularly stay up at night ruminating on her advancing age, wondering just how badly your world will be shattered by her passing and whether you will eve...
Dying is a fact of life, as is the disposal of a body after the fact. You know all about burial and cremation, but here are the other ways people, past and present- have dealt with the departed.
4. Then there are his films that explicitly call out to each other, that seem to compliment and even complete each other, asSoldier of Orange(1977) andBlack Book(2006) describe the Polish resistance in World War II from alternate but congruent angles. Hi...