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Words also tend to be devalued by the new erotica. Three centuries or so ago, William Shakespeare or John Donne could convey passion, poetry, disgust and concupiscence in words with artful undermeanings that shocked none. Nowadays, a few greatly gifted writers can effectively employ the familiar quad-riliterals for dramatic or comic effect, but they tend to lose their value through overuse. As George Orwell observed 22 years ago, "If only our half-dozen 'bad' words could be got off the lavatory wall and onto the printed page, they would soon lose their magical quality." That process is well under...
...ultimate accolade to an artist's consistency-in any medium-is the suffix "esque" at the end of his name. To say a film is "Felliniesque," for example, is to suggest operatic and surrealistic fantasies, or the mixture of brio and disgust with which Fellini views society. "Godardesque" implies the nervous tics and mannerisms of an artist whose creative palsy can produce intriguing collages but never a totally complete vision. "Antonioniesque" suggests the world as a chessboard, full of malignant surfaces and doomed figures. "Pennesque," "Nicholsesque," "Kubrick-esque"-the labels refuse to stick. Yet the time...
Against the outmaneuvered and splintered regulars, who at one point quit the hall in disgust, the tightly organized P.L.P. was confident of victory. It may hardly be worth it. As Yippie Jerry Rubin lamented: "Whoever wins, loses...
Legacy and Vision. Leonardo seemed to feel something like a passion for his human subjects only when he happened to view them with disgust or satirical malice. He was powerfully attracted by strange faces and would sometimes follow some chance passer-by all day long in order to memorize his countenance. His pen caricature of five grotesque heads shows five prototypes of stupidity, cruelty, narrow-mindedness, arrogance and rage...
...fresh flowers at the statue of the church's demoted patron saint. A woman in a crowded Naples streetcar invoked the name of St. Januarius - the city's patron - when the car suddenly stopped and slammed passengers together. A few seconds later, she changed her tone in disgust. "The devil with San Gennaro! He's no good any more. My poor saint...