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hell-west-and-crooked-much askew...
...this? What do you want?" "Resign! Resign!" shouted the crowd. One student clutched him by the arm and asked: "How long do we suffer at your hands?" The Premier slapped his face, then grabbed him by the waist and called police to take him away. Hair rumpled and necktie askew, Menderes raised his arms again and shouted: "Why don't you kill me?" "No, we don't want to kill you. Resign! Resign!" yelled the crowd. "Then kill me," cried Menderes, placing his right hand over his heart...
...earlier book, Someone Like Von (TIME, Dec. 28, 1953), Author Dahl specializes in the horror of normality. The eleven lethal short stories in this collection open on the most humdrum level, with neither a piece of furniture nor a part of speech out of place. Gradually, things get askew: the lovable baby begins to look peculiar; the cat sleeping in the sun opens an almost human eye; the corpse in the hospital is not quite as dead as it looks...
...officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an inverted oatmeal dish." Wright fired back: "It's going to make the Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level base board for reference. Wright replied that the old rectilinear frame of reference was "a coffin for the spirit" and admonished them to wait...
Swept by stiff ground winds, his chute fouled in a tree, and Pilot Rankin slammed headfirst into the tree trunk. He got up groggily, stiff, cold and numb, with his crash helmet knocked askew. He stumbled into a thicket, was for a moment almost hysterical. Then to himself: "You've come this far down for this? Let's get organized." He began walking a procedural-square search, found himself after two 90° turns on a country road. A dozen cars passed him as he stood on the road, wet, bloody, vomit-stained and haggard, and waving feebly...