He snips, pauses, considers, snips again.
Teperman, leaning over an opening into Risa's abdomen the size of a Teletubby's TV screen, threaded silk around a vessel, tied it and snipped the vessel with scissors; looped, tied and snipped again.
Kentucky, no stranger to cutting the nets down in championship games, snipped away again last night after capturing its second N.C.A.A. title in the last three years and its seventh in history with a 78-69 comeback victory over Utah at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
And there we are back at the nail salon one week later only to find them snipping away again.
Again, snip only the thread that is knotted, just above the knot.
It's as though the author couldn't resist snatching up a pair of sewing scissors and, now and again, snipping a little rent in the fabric of her own work — not so much to reveal its artifice or the nothingness beyond the page, but in order to pay respect to the rush of voices, the press of consciousness, beyond her authority: a presence unseen yet avid, and undyingly alert to human endeavor.
Snip the flap open again at all four edges.
Snip off the stems again, then return the flowers to the dye solution.
Mr. Elbaz knows how to refresh a brand, the way a gardener snips-snips-snips, and things begin to grow again.
