Word: flails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kuff" plays hour 12, egging us on to the end and final peaceful oblivion. The dancing circle reestablishes itself and dancers pogo, spin, and flail about in a manner not usually seen at the usual dances around the College...
...course, wildness may constitute the entire explanation. De Lorean may simply have spun out of control, following a bad idea with a desperate flail. Then, too, he may have actively been trying to destroy himself. He chose a symmetrical end, after all. To be nabbed in Los Angeles, the city of the car, and of his youth. To have the coke discovered in a Chevy, the All-American machine. Finally, to risk the ruin of his career by means of a drug that for a certain social set may be said to have replaced the automobile as the national narcotic...
...young woman in red cannot control her body. Her arms flail; her legs buckle; she smiles sweetly through her writhing mouth. An old woman sitting in bed confronts a round slice of bread, tearing it to small bits, which she tosses one by one on the floor; this is her project. In the bed opposite, a Bedouin wearing a white shawl and a deep purple blouse turns from side to side in fierce perplexity. On her forehead one tattoo, on her chin another. These are marks of beauty. "She did not understand what happened," says an orderly...
...polluted. No detail is too gross and no conversation too crude to be recorded. It is as if Shea's residual pride and growing self-hatred prevent him from putting euphemisms between himself and his experience. Raw sin is like a dose of salts, evil is a flail for self-punishment, and the law smells of deals, not ideals. Even his Roman Catholic soul can cop a plea: "He had his script worked out. Confession on his deathbed. Penance. Extreme unction. Two sacraments for the price of one. A perfect act of contrition. Not to mention a perfect...
...Flail Yale...