Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sanchezes are registered Republicans in San Clemente, their official home. Manolo fishes off the rocks below the Western White House. In Key Biscayne, he does his angling from the kitchen window: "I tie on a little piece of white string and I can tell if I have a bite. The President never goes fishing, but when we walk the beach he will ask me about it. He never mentions his problems. He have too many things on his mind. It is only way to escape...
...communicating the hypnotic attraction of humanist gemiitlichkeit amidst deteriorating world situations. Cross The Seventh Seal with Lost Horizon and you have a good idea of the conception's attractiveness. But it is in his attempt not to play with the material that Clavell manages to kill his situation's bite...
...done with great bite and panache. The trouble is Olympia's pet cat at the end of the bed, black in the original, white in the reversal. Its transformation thrusts Black Olympia out of the world of politics and back to aesthetics by suggesting that the color of people matters no more than the color of cats -which, in some Utopia, may eventually come true: but not here and now. Admits Rivers: "The only way to test the idea would be to change every Rembrandt that hangs in every Dutch museum, in fact every painting that exists, into black...
...changing the consciousness of his time. It was a question of finding
its most vital form, of finding something to love beyond an idea or an
id
...football, as in life, there is continual conflict, but it is arbitrary and artificial, and hence has no real bite...