Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easier to picture. For example, how should an artist express the thoughts of a pregnant woman sitting on the ground somewhere in Europe? The first part of Erni's solution was to get the woman on canvas as realistically as he could and give her ah expression of dull waiting. Then, just over her head, he drew a tangled cat's cradle of white lines. He called the whole thing Young Woman...
...forced to marry, is beaten by him with a cudgel "not thicker than a man's thumb," and is kidnaped by Indians. This, presumably, is what readers of this kind of novel have been waiting for, but it is a long wait, and they are in for further dull stretches before virtue and justice at last prevail...
...morning and works through until seven-thirty at night, with a relief man taking over during lunch and dinner. He has been in the square for a little over six years, switching from a beat because of his health, and likes the work because it never gets dull...
...SUBTLE BLASPHEMIES IN SILVER-If you'd rather die than give something dull, the schizophrenic stuff we call jewelry will save your worthless life . . . Don't risk a crestfallen Christmas...
...fascists, is offered his life if he tells where a Loyalist leader is hiding. In the cemetery, he answers contemptuously-naming the most unlikely place he can think of. That is just where the fascists find their man. Intimacy is the story of a frigid wife who leaves her dull, impotent husband to go away with a lover, changes her mind in a burst of muddled pity for her husband and returns to a loveless marriage...