Word: cloacal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Mailer has borrowed his method from Dos Passes, modifying and adapting it, alternating his narrative with flashbacks which he calls The Time Machine, and with choruses of the men's tediously cloacal comments. By some alchemy, his book moves and lives despite the similarity of the biographies (quarreling parents, first sexual experience, unhappy marriage, pretty good job, the draft), its too great length, and the narrow political bias of the views set forth...
...manhole, climbed 20 feet underground, and there she was. Waving flashlights, crying "So boss," they backed the baffled animal through the echoing pipes, eventually got her turned around, past the Newark line, and out into the open air. All told, the cow had covered some twelve miles of cloacal New Jersey...
Resourceful, ruthless and self-assured, Goya rode the crest of this cloacal flood. A ram-headed man of enormous appetites, he ate himself to the verge of apoplexy, begot 20 legitimate children (only one survived the plague-ridden rigors of Spanish life), became the lover of the beautiful and powerful Duchess of Alba, a favorite of the harlot Queen, the most sought-after society portraitist of his time...