Word: askew
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...shot painter," he says, and in his Bridge he deliberately left the splatter of orange on yellow. Noland dares to parallel magenta, russet, beige and maroon in a lollipop war of taste. Sometimes he rams and jams his bright color bands into asymmetrical chevrons like a Disneyland sergeant gone askew...
...Riesman continues, "professor was seen as a sheltered person who was not very manly. This view was somewhat false then but now it is widely askew...
Girl with Green Eyes. She looks, at a glance, like somebody's stenographer. Ski-jump nose, ratty hair, teeth a bit askew. But a fuller inspection finds something special in the face, a radiance. The eyes have it. They are large, the eyes of a night animal. They shine in a night of their own like stars in a dark pool...
...Shriners themselves, their fezzes askew and damp with humidity, their throats hoarse from laughter, by the end of last week they were plumb out of invisible thread as well. But all that was small fish compared to the whale of a time they...
Candy, originally written for Paris' Olympia Press, which specializes in sheer lubricity, is not pornography. It may even be described as antisexual; all too often, at the crucial moment, everything goes askew, and Candy slips back into her filmy panties, crying "Good grief!" Its most conspicuous intent is to be more outrageous in detail than what it is satirizing, and these days, that is hard to do. In the effort, Candy ends up dirty as hell...