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wiry
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wiry
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adjective
1.
wiry children/youths
synonyms
: lean, spare, sinewy, tough, strong.
2.
wiry hair
synonyms
: strong, coarse, tough.
3.
wiry brushes
synonyms
: bristly, prickly, thorny, stiff, rigid.
antonyms:
frail; smooth.
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Alison Saar at LA Louver.
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...stolidity belied by quirky details. In Cache (2006), a prone nude woman is burdened by a bizarre ball and chain: her dense, wiry hair trails away from her on the floor to a giant (two feet in diameter) ball of wound wire. This weird appendage can be read, alternately...
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Russian journalists struggle with freedom. (conversation with Pravda editor-in-chief Shod Muladjanov)
Magazine article from: The Masthead
; ...all of Russia. In the provinces. In small cities, he said. A short man with an urgent sense of mission, Muladjanov has such wiry hair stretching in every direction that he looks as though he's just walked through a wind tunnel. Muladjanov is a powerful figure...
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Fatal inaction: there is a silver bullet for Africa's malaria epidemic. Why the Bush administration won't pull the trigger.
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly
; ...drug here. He's not getting better, she says. Her voice cracks. Next to her, 25-year-old Innocent, a tall woman with long, wiry hair, has bundled her one-year-old in a heavy sweater to quell the chills that shake his small body. He's had malaria twice in the...
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In denial.(Clinton evades public blame for sex scandal)(Capital Scene)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...Lockhart, the designated scandal spokesman while Mike McCurry is (conveniently) away giving a talk at Harvard. Lockhart, big with wiry hair, a softer version of Bob Bennett, comes ready to bob and weave. Reporters manage to press him into admitting that there is...
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 "Deeside Piper & Herald (Banchory, Scotland)")
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Reward offered for Lumphanan Terrier.
Newspaper article from: Deeside Piper & Herald (Banchory, Scotland)
; ...Millie was nowhere to be seen. She is described as a small, fluffy, friendly, sandy-coloured dog with black ears and nose and wiry hair. Anyone with information should contact Brian or Eve Redden at Loanhead Cottage, Corse, Lumphanan, on (013398) 83476 or 07754...
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A Loveless Match.(Short Story)
Magazine article from: The Literary Review
; ...hands inside the all-night dances, her sister's dresses that had to be let out for her oversized, mannish body, her strong, wiry hair scooped up in rolls, shuffling through the hot, laughing crowds to Jack Powers and his big band. He was sensible but shy, no...
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Anne Harris and Cynthia Knott at DC Moore. (New York).
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...terribly out of kilter, even though the boy is suffused in a lovely yellow-gold light. In Old Neck Portrait (2001), a woman's wiry hair frames her face. Like the other subjects, she looks downward, her eyes just barely in tandem. Harris paints otherworldly themes...
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Attending to the ordinary. (artist Joe Brainard)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...about oil paint. Sometimes he used it to mimic the thick, dumb line of Ernie Bushmiller, creator of Nancy. With her helmet of wiry hair, this comic strip heroine was Brainard's most enduring image-fetish. He pictured her and her chic Aunt Fritzie endlessly, sometimes...
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Forty acres and a pool.(Short Story)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review
; ...seductive they-couldn't-take-it-with-them stipend from the afterlife, had trained me to be able to perform ably as one more wiry hair protruding from the wart, right? I mean, a dean! Sure! To continue our spurt of luck, a virtual consortium of neighborhood...
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Hannah Hoch at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art. (Chicago, Illinois)(Review of Exhibitions)
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...vision of her companion, an aging androgyne, is signaled by spectacles; her left eye is that of an owl or cat, and a tuft of her wiry hair stands up like a tongue of fire. The stone pavement on which these odd figures stand gives way in the foreground to another...
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