Word: contortions
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...treatment of standard theater elements—certainly of language—Wellman can be rather vampirish himself. He takes an old word or phrase, drains it dry and then raises it from the dust transformed. Characters in Dracula contort words in eerily brilliant ways, which only grow eerier as they become more possessed (“there is hair growing into my head,” sings one of the particularly mad). When they can’t find the words to describe the alien situations they come upon, they are forced to invent their...
...Files CD-ROM game was just released, and, of course, the sound track is already out.) We're suckered by Carter's inanities--lapses of story and logic that you might expect from a guy who used to write about surfing. In the various Web chat rooms, we grandly contort ourselves to make it all make sense, to press hard continuity into the moist irregularities he offers up every week. His rare moments of generosity with information--one comes at the end of the sound track, when Carter outlines the origins of an interplanetary conspiracy--are greeted with mountains...
...tells me to breathe deeply; I am barely able to breathe at all. The reward for my five minutes of suffering is Achkar's announcement that my colon is in "perfect condition." It does not feel that way: all that air pumped inside me has brought on cramps that contort my gut. Debby counsels me to let it out. "This is one time to forget everything your grandmother taught you about good manners," she tells...
...Lamont, Cabot, my House library and my department's library also had desks uncomfortably high. If it is prohibitively expensive to buy new, adjustable chairs for dorm rooms, there needs to be at least one library with such chairs, so that any student may study without having to contort his or her body...
...babies die because of you!" shouts a woman dressed in a black chador with a tiny weeping child in her arms. "We need peace and milk, not war!" cries another. "We have nothing left," chimes in a third. "War will only destroy us all over again." Their faces contort in fury and frustration as they grab our sleeves, desperate for money and attention...