Pablo Picasso saw this monumental altarpiece, commissioned for a church just outside Toledo, in the studio of a Spanish painter friend in 1906, and it quickened something inside him.
We ran to fill our lungs and to feel our hearts quicken with something other than fear.
There is much exposed flesh and in several cases hints of Sapphic intimacy, but carnality is quickened by something more subtle, a preoccupation with the erotic intercourse of speech.
Immediately the story turns darker, the pace quickens and something genuinely frightening threatens to flood in, but this comes puzzlingly late, leaving this reader, at least, wishing the novel could have been weighted a little more in favour of the sinister.
"Quicken seems like something your dad uses," Mr. Higdon said.
Buxfer /> Buxfer is Quicken for 20 somethings.
"My husband and I looked at each other, something quickened in our hearts, and we thought you know, maybe we could stretch our home to do this -- to take in a foster child".
For something that quickens your pulse, better, perhaps, to choose a book that focuses on a single cuisine or cooking philosophy, one that epitomizes the kind of cook you wish to be.
Then, reality hit sometime after 3 p.m., when none of those things happened and unless you could find something pulse-quickening about Orlando sending J.J. Redick to Milwaukee — and well, heaven help you if you did — that great world-domination board game played in people's heads sputtered to an unsatisfying end.
Quicken's Rocket Mortgage is a powerful product, but not many companies have the capital required to come up with something comparable.
"Gimme Shelter's" anxious, quickened feel no doubt owes something to the last-minute nature of the project, but it is in keeping with the Maysles's aesthetic, which was to grab truth where it lay in agile, relatively unobtrusive snatches, and so limn the reality hidden in plain sight.
