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...here that the single idea of Wolfs book is developed. This is the notion that the force of Stoker's novel derives from the sensual repressions of the Victorian Age. Of course he is correct. The fantasy of a tall intruder in evening clothes bending over the naked bosom of a sleeping maiden must have been delicious. He might have gone further. The Middle Ages believed matter-of-factly in vampires, and the 19th century was thrilled by fictional ones. There has been a small spate of vampire books and films of late, but except as a soggy...
...than the human, then I was faced not only with a lack of subtlety, but also with the absence of some essentially grotesque props. Not to knock De Ann Mears's lusty portrayal of Big Nurse, for instance, but where, oh where was her frequently discussed and out-sized bosom...
...McGovernites had maneuvered the party into trying the "politics of tomorrow," and the future definitely did not work. Coalition, compromise politics had not been proved obsolete as many McGovernites once claimed; it turned out to be alive and well in the hands of Richard Nixon, who clasped to his bosom the very groups the McGovernites had antagonized: labor, white ethnics, the South. "Nixon would have been beaten by someone who could have held the grand coalition together," said Henry Jackson in a postmortem. "How could any one candidate alienate labor, the religious groups, the South and others in one election...
...boast a superfluity of fruit but their coffee and vodka are prohibitively expensive. The Soviets are awash in coffee and vodka but desperately desire well-fashioned clothes and shoes. Nearly everyone in Eastern Europe hungers for Hungarian salamis, and Hungary is piled high with them; yet many a Magyar bosom droops despairingly for want of an uplifting...
...APPROACHED THE KINKS from ignorance. Not total ignorance but one sufficient enough to foster slight misgivings about writing on them. I for one feel an ethical responsibility to bask in the bosom of my bands, and I cannot bask in Ray Davies' bosom. Nor can you watch the Kinks in concert and appreciate them on a purely performing level. Your cursory familiarity with the hand won't save you here. Davies demands an appreciation that goes back to "All Day and All of the Night" a steady attention to development. Which makes Kinks fans quieter cultists than the fanatics...