Word: dank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dazzling volume of verse called Personae (Masks) abruptly forced serious consideration of the upstart's mission: to drag poetry out of the 19th century and into the 20th. Poetry, Pound insisted, must have the virtues of good prose. "No book words, no straddled adjectives ('addled mosses dank'), no Tennysonianness . . . nothing you couldn't. in the stress of some emotion, actually...
There is nothing much new in the dirty game of spying, so innovation is not the strongest suit of Russian Roulette. Predictable as it is in plot, however, the movie has an array of disfranchised, quirky characters and an eye for certain dank dead ends of human endeavor that give it a disconcerting, fresh quality...
These individuals overlap so that the structure of the novel, too, is ever-shifting, molecular, always replacing itself like plants growing and dying a billion times a second in a rich, dank forest--you can hear the process. There's something in the language that achieves this: short sentences appearing and vanishing like postcards and daguerrotypes. Doctorow doesn't invest his people with modern concerns like Gore Vidal does, in his historical fiction, adding sex and neurosis and perversity of motive. The grainy literariness of the ragtime people is inviolable--ladies constantly fleeing to the garden, derbies dotting riverside parks...
This bilious tirade would not be worth a moment's thought if it had come off a mimeograph machine in some dank cellar. Instead, The Camp of the Saints arrives trailing clouds of praise from French savants, including Dramatist Jean Anouilh ("A haunting book of ir resistible force and calm logic"), with the imprint of a respected U.S. publisher and a teasing pre-publication ad campaign ("The end of the white world is near"). Before the book is called "courageous" or "provocative," a small distinction should be made. The portrait of racial enmity is one matter. The exacerbation...
David escapes from his dank cell and gets out into the countryside. Loaded down with tins of canned goods and an automatic pistol, he starts to make his way to a small mountain cabin which, it turns out, has already been destroyed by a natural disaster. This piece of information is relayed by an ursine eccentric named Thomas (Philippe Noiret) who encounters David in the middle of his trek. Thomas offers David shelter, food and his wife, a pert sculptress named Julia (Marlene Jobert)- although he reserves the right to act wounded when his guest takes...