Word: bastardize
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Mondrian's influence on art and design in the past 50 years has been so huge that it tends, if anything, to obscure his own work. He is the father of asymmetrical design, and his progeny are legion. Bastard Mondrians, with their printed grids of black lines and their rectangles of primary blue, red and yellow, turned up on every flat surface that industry made-from tea towels to Courrèges dresses, from cigarette packs to apartment façades...
...time, we've realized the three women are three sisters--Ma is introduced. She's a tough old lady. As much of a talker and as big a pain in the ass as any-of her daughters, as Pa (Robert Donley) himself points out. You're a wrinkled old bastard, she replies in the crisscross of invective that bind the two together. And Furth has made his point. Each of the women is her mother's daughter ("Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined," to quote Pope on the matter) and each has won success from life...
...bastard child, Mary is the daughter of Pound and the American violinist Olga Rudge who, after two years of living with Pound, supplanted his legal wife, Dorothy Shakespear...
This is a pity, for Sillitoe is a writer of considerable talent: an ingenious storyteller, a stylist and, best of all, a genuinely rebellious spirit. Now, with a bow to Defoe and Fielding, he offers a cheerful picaresque novel subtitled "the ordinary and not so ordinary adventures of a bastard and a proletarian . . . when the star of his destiny takes him to London and sundry places...
...final week wore on, the tension began to show. Negotiators took on a rumpled look and tempers flared. Union men became impatient with the slow progress of the talks. One of them told a company man at a meeting: "You are a lying bastard, and if you deny it, I'll belt...