Word: consciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly-the time is approximately 8:14-the whole valley is filled by a garish light, and I am conscious of a wave of heat. As I make for the door, I hear a moderately loud explosion; at the same time, the window breaks in with a loud crash. I am sprayed by fragments of glass. The entire window frame has been forced into the room. I realize now that a bomb has burst and I am under the impression that it exploded directly over our house. I am bleeding from cuts about the hands and head...
Cass was a self-conscious girl trying desperately to be pretty. To hide her too-prominent teeth, she pressed her upper lip well down as she sang. Kinsella kept coming to hear her and tried to coach her back into the uninhibited comedy of her childhood. When she insisted on singing with a small mouth he dropped a plate in the middle of her act. Kinsella became so fascinated with the case of Cass that he gave up the insurance business, became Cass's manager, married...
...hyper-sophisticated followers of bedroom comedy, this homely little story of a Connecticut-conscious New York family will hold only a few widely scattered delights: there is not much of the subtle word-play and tittilating sex undercurrent that were good for so may laughs in the comparable "Man Who Came to Dinner...
...terrified by the enormous size of the character. . . ." But he constantly remembered Falstaff's "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." No mere butt, no mere burlesque, Richardson's fat knight is a restrained, highly intelligent, altogether conscious comedian, an artful creator of merriment. Hence his final fall from grace seems not pathetic but tragic...
Soon Sailor Slobodkin (self-described as "a fat, soft guy with glasses") found himself loading cargo, eating slop and doing soogie moogie (scrubbing paint work) with a crew as oddly assorted as flotsam & jetsam on a beach. There was a union-conscious Portuguese named Perry. "His cross eyes seemed to set the motive for all his movement-when he'd sit down, he'd cross his legs, cross his arms . . . . I never saw him standing with his legs straight...