Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dingy streets, sex clubs, hospital operating rooms, and polo fields. I thought once that Jerzy Kosinski had the most fantastic and bizarre imagination of any American writer. Lurid episodes splatter his pages, rapes of village nymphs by jealous peasant women with rake handles and broken bottles and remote-control murders on Swiss ski slopes. Yet if People can be trusted, Kosinski's tales are more life than art, drawing on a misguided, exotic youth...
Passion Play is Kosinski's seventh novel and we see more method to the madness of human grotesquerie that has always decorated his pages. Kosinski writes about the dark shadow self--our violent urges, homosexual lusts, transexual curiosities, murderous inclinations, heterosexual explorations, and, inevitably, our intense fear of surrendering control of the flesh and bones that give us life. None of these themes is new to Kosinski; what's new is the lucidity and restraint with which they're developed. Passion Play is his best novel...
...Crimson, slightly outplayed during the scoreless first half, took control in the second, but were unable to create open shots...
...loss of over $1 billion in labor pension funds, but rather because it feared its reputation would be tarnished if it were publicly linked with J.P. Stevens. Banks are especially vulnerable to the corporate campaign, Rogers says, because their success depends on their public images and because "what they control they...
...only did the Harvard forwards show exceptional ball control--outshooting the Jumbos 37-1--they also displayed depth as four different players scored and the second string forward line notched as many points as the starters...