Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom Thomas was faithful in plot structure alone, replacing Stevenson's old salty seadog manner with a moody romanticism, but preserving Stevenson's gun-shooting, skeleton-rattling scary tale of fists, love and danger. His most interesting character is Case, the incarnate devil-"ironically attitudinizing, full of disgust and venom there in the fly-loud, flyblown, bottle-strewn bedded room." The part is intended at present for James Mason, but Burton would do well to trade traders with...
...bait, even tapping it tentatively with its bill, then turn tail and nonchalantly swim away, with curses raining down over its wake. Or it will grab the bait sideways in its jaws, neatly avoiding the hook, then spit it back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto the hook by "racing" the bait (skipping it swiftly along the surface), then suddenly dropping it backward as the openmouthed fish approaches. Even that tactic often fails. "Ain't nothing in the ocean so hard to outguess...
...this short tragedy is not an unqualified statement of the intense misogyny of Strindberg's youth: the duality of his evaluation of women, which led him alternatively from violent, Nietszchean disgust of females to a submissive craving for maternal warmth and comfort, receives a bit of the attention it will enjoy more fully in later plays. The Strindberg hatred for the feminist opportunist pervades The Link, but an appreciation of the woman as mother is not totally absent...
...town, or the San Francisco Giants. But only 6,505 paying customers were on hand last week to see the Mets lose to the Houston Colts, 8-0-their 16th loss in 17 games. From somewhere amid the blank spots in the bleachers came a plaintive cry of disgust: "Casey Stengel is a fink...
Free again, De Sade gave up public life in disgust and returned to his private orgies. Accused of writing an obscene pamphlet ridiculing Napoleon and Josephine, he was incarcerated for the last time-in an insane asylum. There he amused the inmates by staging his plays, which had flopped outside the asylum but were a big hit within. "This man is not insane," De Sade's last doctor declared, "he is just mad about vice." Despite that madness, De Sade's writing showed an early insight into the makeup of man. Before Freud, De Sade saw that cruelty...