Word: crookedness
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By publishing Peter Stoler's biased antihunting essay, you and the author qualify for our "Crooked Shaft" award. This honor goes only to those who contribute significantly to perpetuating the contemporary myth that most hunters are bloodthirsty, hard-drinking, rough-talking, callous clods.
If it is possible to ignore the moral issues that West himself raises and then drops, Proteus can be clear sailing. Connoisseurs of page-turners will feel right at home in a world where a woman can still be described as a "leggy redhead," where grins are "crooked," where a...
The scarlet letter was placed there by her crooked Irish lover, Dermott Bride. Isaac's tale of jealousy and vengeance is a simple one, diverted by the author's irrepressible gusto: in New York, a woman's eyes turn "a green that was so fierce, Isaac had...
Now comes The Flounder, a long, magnificent passage of wind, a pungent humanizing of the past and present in which the Weltgeist (world spirit) is a talking fish, a warty, cunning creature with a crooked mouth and two freakish eyes on one side of its doormat body. This turbot, as...
The mayor of a tiny provincial Russian town, whose name, Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, is almost larger than his constituency, has been tipped off that a government agent of high rank is coming, incognito, to inspect local fiscal affairs. Since the mayor (The odore Bikel) and his appointed underlings are...