Roamings

Of the Globe, Mind and Time

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Epiphanies: A Visual Perspective (Part II)

(based on images from the Richard Kostelanetz film)

In the mundane ebb and flow of Ted's career as a tax consultant, 1982's Championship Year came on the strength of 2,505 return completions.

While sitting on the bus, she suddenly decided to abandon all plans for the day and instead follow the whereabouts of the last passenger to alight.

After returning from his maiden trip to a foreign land, he never quite felt the same rush of pride whenever he gazed into his full-length bedroom mirror.

In a blatant statement against a generation raised on consumerism, her business thrived on the concept of holding back from customers exactly what they wanted.

The notion that Writer's Block is more painful than Tennis Elbow is all in the head.

It was a steamy, still night -- written and choreographed by Edward Hopper.

The start of their beautiful relationship for him began when he first noticed that odd, perpetual and barely discernible curling of her lips.

Every time he successfully landed the 747, he would yell "TOUCHDOWN!" and exuberantly slam his cap on the cockpit floor, much to the bewilderment of his international crew.

Their romp in the hay amazingly uncovered a lost needle.

In stark contrast to the hard edgy relief that is the roof of the palate is the soft undulating valley that splits the tongue.

It may take place on a desk, but it can hardly be called a job.

The performer thought her audience had put on a jolly good show.

Their desire to keep up with the Joneses and concurrent fear of being labeled by the neighborhood as "passionless" prompted them to inject a physical element into their hitherto tame domestic squabbles.

His fairly harmless fetishist display of caressing the scantily-clad mannequins was amusing but nonetheless disquieting to the female employees.

Dressing room doors frequently provide unexpected entrances into the Twilight Zone.

Key to an actresses' range of competencies is the ability to portray growing anxiety and terror without sending the audience into a raging fit of laughter.

Worse than choking on a fig is inducing an unintended Heimlich by falling on a stake.

For all their modern gadgetry and zippy action, James Bond films would not be half as entertaining were it not for the pervasive air of flirtatiousness.

There was severe unrest in the Bermuda Triangle when about ten square miles of ocean suddenly burst through previously watertight seals.

Though he couldn't decipher the inscription, its somber script left little room for light-hearted interpretations.

As she put the finishing touches at the end of the assembly line on yet another high-end PC, she sorely envied its path to presumably more comfortable surroundings than her own.

Focus is the key to completion of many difficult tasks -- including an eye test.

He enjoyed the act of lovemaking more with one item of clothing on.

To ease the pain of reliving the crucial fumble that cost them the game, they watched that portion of the film in reverse.

And then there were five, which meant there muat be no fewer than four false prophets.

His obsessive superstitiousness caused him to attempt to squeeze awkwardly -- and subsequently get stuck -- into the narrow space separating the two adjacent leaning ladders.

EVIAN -- two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen, seven parts marketing integration.

Before the helicopter, the term "WHIRLYBIRD" referred to an obscure aristocratic pastime where caged pigeons are observed in their confinement after being subjected to a mild alcohol overdose.

NoNoNo -- we're weary of you, Yoko.

Hidden skeletons aren't likely to be in a closet.

It concerned him that whenever he witnessed a cheerleading routine, ballet dance or chorus line, his mind's eye saw a burlesque show.

Though he understood neither French nor German, he dreamt in them -- making him a tremendously challenging patient for his therapist.

As his girlfriend was burying him in the sand, a bully came & kicked sand in his face.
Since the stand-up microphone was a major prop in his stage act, the advent of clip-on wireless devices was hardly a welcome advancement.

I start to weep as I watch my mother on her exercise machine, trembling with excitement as she recites a prayer about orgasm.

As he menacingly stalked the scantily-clad vixen, he became aware of a band of thugs lurking behind him.

Debbie needed a live coach constantly by her side in order to maintain pleasant phone manners.

Though she didn't reduce its price, she thought it rather egalitarian displaying a 'FOR SALE' sign on the window of her Mercedes while driving around the township.

She was producing a beautiful condensation landscape on the rear window when the car lurched suddenly.

He was so excited at having sneaked under the barrier and slipping into the building that he didn't realize he had disembarked at the wrong bus top.

Momentary shadows were his photographic specialty and as such found it a demanding discipline.

His only purpose for renting the limousine that evening was to be seen arriving and leaving from all the city's hotspots with a hired escort.

The peaceful rural path had a steep downward gradient, a gorge at its end and an out-of-control skateboarder careening along it.

An express train to work can be a good or a bad thing.

As Daddy put on his goggles and gargled in front of baby, baby gurgled.

A Milanese Mafioso Movie will have many mean-sounding men.

The balcony of view of the featureless earthy smog in the background was partially obscured by the monstrous skyscraper rising offensively in the foreground.

His casual interest in the rally peaked considerably when the riot police arrived.

She awoke me from my deep sleep by rapping on the office glass partition and gesturing that the boss was coming.

His initial satisfaction at being caught behind the celebrity motorcade turned to bellicose annoyance when he realized it was only a traffic jam.

The mathematician stared incessantly at the passion-locked couple because they reminded him of a Moebius strip.

Not one for consensus, the CEO longed for a time when conflicts were resolved by a good old-fashioned joust.

Grandma exceeded all social protocol when she spat her dentures clear across the banquet table straight into grandpa's cognac.

She'd been told the water was unsafe to drink and so proceeded to wash her face with beer.

He answered the doorbell and was greeted by a pair of perky breasts.

In a bold move, the Police Commissioner ordered his force to wear red uniforms.

If not for her stunning good looks, Morgen would have found it more difficult to forgive her parents for the silly name they gave her.

Today's mood forecast calls for a wave of optimism followed by a downward spiral.

He finally invested in a zoom lens for his job of photographing aircraft landings.

While he enjoyed sporting a goatee, he couldn't deal with the associated expectations of greater wisdom.

The flower blossomed beautifully into shades of varying gray.

She viewed the 'exponential function' not as a mathematical entity but rather as another chapter in her tedious textbook.

Her mom said, "If you're dead set on going to an orgy, at least make sure it's a damn fine one!"

There's nothing like a game of Jenga with people cushion-pounding you as you're trying to tell an interesting story while removing blocks simultaneously.

It's rarely the case that butterfly catchers are in it for the chase only.

He had gone completely Overboard in his barrage of insults, so the ship's captain gave him his due punishment.

She retired from her career as a magician when her rabbit began getting claustrophobic.

When two hearts beat as one, their impact is less sobering than when two ships meet.

The headlights swiftly approaching his car weren't as much a concern as the train behind them.

It's a little known fact that people with blue eyes make better pilots because they have clearer sky vision.

People who dictate fashion simply have a fetish for passion.

"Achtung!" he uttered.

As an anesthetist turned body artist, she now carves a nice living creating personalized nipple sculptures.

To the residents' dismay, the arrival of the police served merely to elevate the tension and noise-level of the demonstration.

Kevin & Tim made quite a hit on public access TV with their weekly critique of Siskel & Ebert reviews.

As his coach's favorite guinea pig for developing hammer-throwing techniques, he suffered many heinous hernias.

Most passers-by who saw the glamorous couple sitting on a park bench in a pensive posture assumed they were posing.

Behind every evil king is a sinister spy.

He was really good at doing headstands from the waist down.

Nothing is quite as dizzying as gazing at a constantly moving Mondrian montage.

While the school board warmed up to the proposal for women's basketball and football teams, it was decidedly uncomfortable with an accompanying troop of screaming male cheerleaders.

There is no such thing as a minor shipwreck.

Disco undoubtedly has some roots in early Chaplin comedic dance routines.

He found it anatomically challenging to satisfy his foot fetish and phone sex fantasies simultaneously.

People who attempt suicide are as impatient as queue cutters.

People plunder peerage, penguins preen plummage.

A man approaching ecstacy focuses intently on the white light.

The mature splendour of the sweeping landscape was disrupted by the waste treatment facility.

She held enough power in her hands to actually light the bulb.

He wondered if his pet falcon would feel condescendingly towards the idea of a road trip.

The worst place to hide your treasure map is up your sleeve.

Boys who chug beers aren't as masochistic as girls who chug grape sodas.

He didn't mind walking to church, at worst he'd be late.

Watching the bird suddenly fall out of the sky and splatter itself mercilessly on the pavement seemed rather surreal for John.

The woman with the big orange hair abnd the man with the big orange jacket walked in together unnoticed.

Paying no attention to the stick-up, the man and his horse rode on.

He theorized that men really bonded with jukeboxes because they possessed many mechanical moving parts and gave control to the user.

Sewer is thicker than water.

All his colleagues developed nasty headaches from the malodorous mixture of his body stench and over-powering cologne.

Caught by the police spotlight in the alleyway, she instinctively broke into her stand-up comedy routine.

She couldn't take her eyes off the decor - till the cameras arrived.

She was dancing with such reckless abandon as to forget time and the precipitous fall beyond the low roof railing.

Many lives would change if the earth zipped across the heavens like a shooting star.

Abortion rights meant keeping the clotheshanger factory open.

As he stood by the window ready to leap, he first decided to take off his watch.

The trouble with elevators is there's seldom enough natural lighting inside.

He didn't help investagators much by describing the suspect as an indiscriminate shadowy mass.

She was so pre-occupied with looking for her misplaced clock that she was unable to find time for much else.

The woman in the leopard skin suit would do well to not work in the male nursing home.

They were caught red-handed in the black market.

The ashcan flame was too small to sufficiently warm their outstretched hands but too big to safely light their cigarettes.

After pacing incessantly around the phone booth and rehearsing his lines, he dropped his quarter into the payphone's out-of-order abyss.

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