Word: fooled
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...ancient prostitute, a certain ability for the particular and an insight into the quixotic. Although the over-riding characteristic of Lessing's writing-which is extremely uneven from story to story-is long-windedness, it is only when she addresses social abstracts that she makes a fool of herself. Then, appreciable as her sentiments may be it is one long wince for the reader, and, especially if the reader is under thirty, rather like watching one's parents do the twist. One wishes they wouldn...
...fool all of the people all of the time...
...nightclub and then, at Gaudier's demand, drop her knickers onstage. Around 1912, the real-life Gaudier was commissioned to do a portrait bust of a Major Smythies, who - considering the time and place and the modernity of Gaudier's work - can hardly have been a fool. Russell turns him into a florid cross between Kaiser Bill and Colonel Blimp, querulously posing in a drawing room on a white horse. Do such absurdities matter? Not if Russell's aim was slapstick parody. Yet, to judge from his publicity, Russell believes that his erratic mediation between Vasari...
...linkman Harvard is in relatively good shape. Bahman-Mossavar Rahmani who played the Penn game with a groin pull, is healthy, and Emmanual Ekama's sore fool appears to be finally heated...
...discontented subjects to revolt and embarks on domesticity with a wealthy widow. But the elixir of life eludes him. After each venture he finds himself asking, in the words of Peggy Lee's song "Is that all there is?" Indeed, this Pippin might seem like something of a fool if John Rubinstein, son of the pianist Artur, had not imbued him with such a sweet and winning nature. His life, as related in this story, is more the stuff of show biz than history...