Word: creeped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bits of the war, racism and pollution do creep into Alex , but in a manner so fraudulent that the words are reduced to mere shells. Mazurky shows us Alex fantasizing a guerrilla attack on Hollywood Boulevard during the filming of a Doris Day musical. And Mazurky shows us a surreal vision of a polluted LA airport as well as a tribe of dancing blacks descending upon a colony of Jewish intellectuals. But, never, never, is he able to give either Alex or his film any deeper method of understanding the phenomenon they want so badly to discuss...
...narrator in "They Grind Exceeding Small" was delightful compared to Peter Harkness, the narrator of Dealing. Of all the one-dimensional men to creep onto the written page, Harkness must be leader of the pack. Peter Harkness, rich New England Harvard freak. A freak in J. Press clothing. His likes: dope, cigarettes, dope, "TWA stewies," dope, pubic hair. His dislikes: pigs, his parents, pigs, the mornings before exams, pigs, the Porcellian Club, pigs, pigs. The stoned vs. the straight, the freak vs. the pig-that is his Manichean worldview. And so we follow Peter Harkness from Boston to Berkeley...
When such phrases creep in, perhaps Lukas is exorcising the demon Times from his soul. Written in the first person, Lukas makes clear the fact that the trial has forced him to reconsider personal prejudices acquired over 15 years as a journalist. Bewildered as I was during those five months, and even now when the protest marches through the streets have subsided and friends who called this the last indignity they would tolerate in America are making plans for Law School, I can't fault the book's failure to choose sides. The circles of his light narrative explain that...
...invisible shield finally shattered. The argument drew a huddle of supporters behind each of the protagonists, who stood face to face at one end of the lounge. Before this argument reached its pitch (when Dan Joy, editor of the YAF house organ, New Guard, called his emotional opponent a "creep"), other discussions had broken out all over the room. Some of the contestants argued arrogantly and hotly; others tried to persuade the other side of the truth of some particular belief, or to find some bit of common ground between the Left and the Right. Onlookers were confused, or amused...
PRODUCTION will creep up from this year's lows, but sluggishly. There is nothing in sight now to spark any major surge. Consumers have been saving an abnormally high 8% of their income...