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...battiest recesses of his imagination. Wise Blood is based on Flannery O'Connor's extraordinary first novel, which infused the conventions of Southern gothic fiction with fiery Catholicism and surrealistic wit. Huston takes to O'Connor's hothouse style like a gambler to a royal flush. The inevitable results are the very essence of weird...
Voters do not like to be taken for granted. Dealt a political straight flush in a card game no one understands, Jimmy Carter may be overplaying his hand. He's already shown he can't keep a poker face...
Return visits convince Hugh that there is something strange about this place. Hours spent there amount only to minutes in the world to which he returns. "He would live two lives," he thinks in the first flush of discovery. "In fact he would live two lives in the space of one, twice as long in the same amount of time." He is intrigued but not discomfited to learn that his spot exists always in twilight. His pleasure is threatened only by Irene, a woman his age and equally rootless, who discovered this world years earlier and tries...
Which of the following words best completes this sentence: "How the ____ roses flush up in the cheeks." Red? Pretty? Yellow? The answer, according to the intelligence testmakers who devised that question more than a decade ago, is "red." But, observes a provocative new tabloid called Testing Digest, red is right "only if the cheek in question is white...
Romantic Comedy is one long credibility gap. As comedy it is flush with flip badinage but unilluminated by genuine humor. As romance it is a verbal sparring match with mighty few emo tional clinches. There is no discernible chemical affinity between these two antiseptic people...