Word: badly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Message to My Friends," smuggled out to Paris' Le Nouvel Observateur, Debray said that three days after his capture in central Bolivia, his life seemed doomed. "I was in very bad shape," wrote Debray, "and the excitement of the officers who were venting their anger on me, with no precise goal in mind, had reached its peak." They were "amusing themselves," said Debray, "by firing between my legs and as close to my head as possible." Then along came some Spanish-speaking CIA agents who "called a halt to such shenanigans, summoned a doctor and at first treated...
...hardly matters that, short of featuring a priest on a pogo stick, there are not many plots left beyond The Flying Nun. Producers of westerns have learned that a good way to save on dialogue is to let each of the "ride-bys"-the good guys chasing the bad guys-run on for an extra 20 seconds or so. Says one TV writer: "The civil rights movement has saved us temporarily. What we do now is drag out one of the old plots and add a new sociological dimension by casting a Negro in a lead role...
What keeps a man and his soap apart for so long? Bad but heavily significant puns. Long scatological accounts of constipation that add up to a plain case of logorrhea. Recurring signs and symbols planted like a Freudian scavenger hunt. Above all, the metaphysical pseudo-Joycean rhetoric of a sometime poet, sometime screenwriter from Hollywood ("The mind is a revolving snowflake out of the backblackward...
...pity is that inside this bad fat novel, a good thin novel is signaling wildly to get out. Behind its mythic pretensions to be a fire-and-water purification ritual, Milkbottle H has the first-rate makings of an old-fashioned Jewish family story. If only he could have dropped his awful obligation to art-his cosmic gropings after sex and death, universal guilt, America! America!-all Author Orlovitz may really have wanted to do was write a nice quiet memoir about a Philadelphia boyhood, made up of such common scrapbook elements as a father hangup, comic aunts, and holiday...
...state troopers beat up a lot of people, but specifically avoided the Swarthmore kids. There was blood in the streets; it was so bad.... It demoralized the movement, and it was disillusioning for us because so many people got hurt.... I think it had a radicalizing effect on us.... It upset a lot of people in Philadelphia, who sent in a lot of money. Violence does that.... The incident made us a little suspicious of liberals: that it takes blood in the streets before they realize that conditions are bad...