Word: flagellantism
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Sondheim's score counterbalances this by being agile and clever in the way only he can be. But his forte is sophisticated parody, and only in a song called Someone in a Tree does palpable emotion linger. The final impression is that the show belongs to the flagellant school...
As labyrinthine as the author's best-selling Kremlin Letter, it is set mostly in Central Europe late in World War II. The adversaries are a depraved lot of American military and a handful of German exiles-who all want to beat the Allies at setting up the postwar...
It is not the world he left or ever knew, but a fun-house mirroring unac- customed images: Ippo the sandwich man; two German whores who dispense their favors in duo; a flagellant with the implausible name of Bob Courage, who invites Edwin to whip up a little fun.
Jennifer, the flagellant with fluorescent molars, is a new character. But her leering mother-in-law, who crouches by a hot-air register listening to the merry whack of belt on flesh, is an old friend from the first novel. So is Heroine Allison Mac-Kenzie, the girl author who...
49th State. Suez exposed Britain's reduced status as a military power, the vulnerability of its economy and the limit of what it once considered the unlimited backing of its closest ally. The danger in all the resultant self-flagellant humility was that Britain might turn to a "Lay...