Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amidst a seething abyss of turmoil, despair, defeat, defeat, and defeat, not all is black on the Yale lacrosse scene--or so this reporter has discovered, after boldly defying the administration ban by contacting his old school pal and lax team captain Buddy Bixford...
...book is good, I get a little excited--my throat tenses slightly, and my pace quickens. Soon I hit the "breaker" sentence--a particularly insightful or brilliant sentiment that is the toppling shove into the dreaded abyss that is happiness...
...later plays, notably The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya and The Seagull. The joys this collaboration offers, however, are as much visceral as literary. In chronicling the tomfoolery of a village intellectual, half charmer, half malcontent, Wild Honey provides nonstop bawdy laughter followed by a silencing leap into the abyss...
...public and the private man: Stricklyn speaks in the guise of Williams addressing a reporter, so his rambling 90-min. monologue is unmistakably a performance. Even so, there are passages of naked confession. The time is Williams' declining years, and the prevailing tone is graveyard jollity, dancing at the abyss. Like authentic conversation, Nightingale veers abruptly from revelation to chitchat; at one moment Williams self-justifyingly remarks that much of life is made of trivia. The talk ranges from bitchy quips ("I just flew in from Hollywood. I was there too long: four hours") and camp badinage ("An advantage...
THERE ARE, OF course, new twists to old plots in the new tome. Pulitzer Prize-winner E.O. Wilson, who in previous years had strayed from the evil cave of sociobiology into the abyss of the Core Curriculum, will this year offer a graduate level course in that controversial field...