You see him in his forties, funnelling gunk into a polystyrene head, announcing: 'My daddy did this to me and you can do this to your son.' There are the animatronic figures of the 1980s - a man with his trousers down, rutting away at a tree; and the static sculptures, such as Spaghetti Man, half-rabbit, half-man, with a 40ft noodle for a penis.
Mastering Your Ph.D.: Setting Goals for Success by Patricia Gosling and Bart Noordam, 15 December 2006 If you're in a rut, try stepping away from the bench and spending some time writing down your short- and long-term objectives before diving into yet another experiment.
The calf remains with its mother till the birth of the next calf, during which males in rut drive it away from the mother.
Anything that shakes up your mechanical approach to something is a potential rut to break away from.
The clay ground had broken away in ruts from a long-ago storm.
Four years ago I traveled over a deeply washed away and rutted dirt track to visit villages in the northern Liberian jungle, in what is now the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak.
As a black person and as a gay person, I come from a very marginal place, away from the rut of a perceived black masculinity, which is very narrow, of a certain machismo; and away from mainstream ideas of the kind of David Furnish-Elton John kind of gay respectability.
We didn't fall out of love, but we did start to sleepwalk through our lives, snoring away in our comfortable rut.
To stay away from that watery rut, he keeps a list of verbs on his computer screen (sear, purée, sauté, grill) as a reminder.
Using the flashlight sparingly, he covered the grave with older and then fresher pine needles, did his best to kick away footprints and wheelbarrow ruts, and artfully strewed leaf litter and lawn waste.
