Word: broodingness
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IN 1938, when we last made a number of simultaneous changes in TIME's appearance, we learned that familiarity had bred content in some of our readers. One subscriber wrote: "Outraged betrayed, I went dejectedly off to bed last night. My brooding thoughts: Whistler's Mother with eyebrows...
Straw Dogs is a brilliant feat of movie making. Peckinpah, working outside America and outside the western genre for the first time, uses the brooding monochromes of the Cornish countryside to construct a self-contained universe of indifferent terrors, in which, according to Lao-tze: "Heaven and earth are not...
If he was inclined for a time to moody fatalism, his nearly hyperthyroid present political pace and his family life leave little time for brooding. The Kennedys' $750,000 gray-shingled house and five acres in McLean, Va., overlook the Potomac River. Despite the back injury from his near-fatal...
He was not blind to the movement of history and not unsympathetic. "The backward races are kicking," he once wrote, "and more power to their boots." (But, Mr. Forster, the poor have no boots). He did not belong to history; his temperament was too ironic to believe in the future...
When Lesser and Spearmint have a showdown, with hatchet and saber respectively, the abandoned tenement is transformed into a hallucination of a jungle battleground. The realistic props that Malamud has so expertly designed are yanked away, and the two writers assume the proportions of brutal historical forces. Significant blows are...