Question

This activity is depicted on the second card of a Floskaartjes (“FLOSS-kar-chiss”) deck, before 34 cards representing social roles. A “set” for doing this activity was placed beside a lunar map and an egg in the first shadow box by Joseph Cornell. In “The Primacy of Absorption,” Michael Fried points out a torn jacket in a painting of a person performing this activity. This activity is shown in a painting that John Everett Millais used to (*) advertise the company Pears. (10[1])Manet painted teenage Léon (10[1])Leenhoff (10[1])doing this activity while holding a bowl. This activity symbolized impermanence in the homo bulla (-5[1])motif of 17th-century (10[1])Dutch painting. (10[1])Unlike a painting (10[1])in which a house of cards is being built, (10[1])another painting by the same artist shows (10[1])a young man using a straw to do this action. (10[1])For 10 points, Chardin (10[1])painted a young man leaning out of a window while doing what action? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: blowing bubbles [or blowing soap bubbles; accept making bubbles] (Life of Man is by Jan Steen.)
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Summary

2024 Chicago Open07/28/2024Y1191%0%9%105.80

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Tracy Mirkinsticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zoneThe Dyatlov Passement incident7810
Matt JacksonLMM's LLM MLMwhen you look this good, you don’t have to know anything8210
Nathan ZhangAMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUHFirst Cause, First Cause, make me young!8310
Anwen KelleherNJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown98-5
Kevin WanggenAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yetWe Need New Names10110
John LawrenceBHSU BThere are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see10310
Dylan MinarikAre You There, Chat? It's Me, MargaretLisan al-Quib10610
Rahul KeyalLying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, ChicagoRead slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A11510
Andrew WangPunished "Venom" BHSUvar merchants12210
Milan FernandezThe Empire Bikes BackA Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence13210
Jim FanMindgoblin of Little HobbesNJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess)13610
Eve Fleisigit's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brownNJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess)1500