Word: dog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drawing almost exclusively on Thomas's prose, including A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog and Quite Early One Morning, Williams sifts with poetic brilliance through the author's memories and fantasies of childhood. These emerge as a series of sharply recollected details amid word paintings of character and scene. Plot is virtually non-existent, but the details themselves are indelible. Bob the embezzler is a "small absconding man," who under accusation smiles "like a razor." One woman is observed to have "painted her face as though it were a wall." Thomas himself is described as a "bombastic...
...current version of the blues is chillier than a used Christmas tree lying in a gutter--Derek of the Dominoes has degenerated beyond shooting the sheriff (in self-defence, of course), to the dog days and pseudo-gospel of There's One In Every Crowd and thence to Shangri-La. Which (surprise, surprise) turns out to be a recording studio just raring to press this most recent rocking/R & B-ing/reggae-ing/reneging-on-his-followers onto vinyl...
Drastic Measures. The military's chief mouthpiece, Liberation Army Daily, has consistently called for "beating the dog in the water," meaning showing the enemy no mercy. Some China watchers believe that Hua may have become persuaded that the disease of factionalism has failed to respond to treatment and so more drastic measures must be considered...
Mentum was passing in back of the Brown bench eating a between-periods hot dog when Stovern lit the red light, but he soon returned to Section 19 and seven minutes later Harvard joyously raised its sticks in appreciation of Mentum's decision...
BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS. Robert Altman's shaggy dog meditation on celebrity and how it befuddles its victims. The ending is flawed, but Paul Newman (as the title showman) and a fine supporting cast make the journey to it highly rewarding...