Word: bastardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...down, in seeming agony, twisting his body like an animal buckling in a slaughterhouse pen. As his pain subsides, Casey gets up, his face filled with righteous anger. The crowd calls for retribution, for redress of grievances and victory for Casey. Suddenly Casey pins Howard. "Casey nailed that cheating bastard," avers a man in the front row. Justice is done...
King Lear recounts the title figure's rejection of his youngest daughter, Cordelia, and betrayal by his other two daughters, Goneril and Regan. An interrelated sub-plot tells how the bastard Edmund discredits his legitimate brother Edgar and claims the lands of their father, Duke of Gloucester. Simple stories, but Shelley called this play, "the most perfect specimen of dramatic poetry existing in the world...
Among the evil characters, the bastard Edmund (Christopher McCann) most convincingly reveals and revels in malice. As Goneril, Kirsten Girous, gives the only unsatisfactory performance in the cast. (It is necessary not to have one's hand covering one's face at least half the time one is on stage, in order for the gesture to have a dramatic impact...
...mean," Tim Kazurinsky told Rolling Stone, "there were some sleazy motherfuckers who ripped John off when he was alive, but Bob Woodward's the only bastard low enough to pick his bones." The whole mess that has seen even terminally kind Steven Spielberg attack. Woodward stems from Woodward's wholly unsympathetic treatment of Belushi in Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi. As a creative enterprise, the book reads like a narrative version of the film Reefer Madness with Belushi playing all the parts...
...BASTARD," says Stratis Haviaras with barely the hint of a Greek accent, adding. "The bearer of many winds. I carry the whiffs and flavors of different times and different places: I feel them rise within my blood and sometimes they are very...