Word: fragmentism
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...strangest lady on Fifth Avenue. Her face looked a little like a reduced version of Elsa Lanchester's, her flower-covered, tubular body was rooted in the ground, and for a hat she wore a fragment of a vase full of spreading greenery. She looked like Maud who had finally come into the garden and been left there too long. The lady was all clay, and the creation of Denmark's Bjorn Wiinblad (rhymes with keen blot), one of the brightest ceramists in the business...
French Stories and Tales, ably edited by Stanley Geist, a young American critic and writer living in Paris, offers the richer literary experience. The selections range from a Stendhal love story, as intricate as a Japanese tea ceremony, to a fragment of Swiftian satire by Baudelaire on the suicide of a Parisian street urchin. In between, Balzac, Zola and Guy de Maupas sant lash at the favorite whipping boy of French letters, the French middle class. Best yarns in the book are stories of simple nobodies by Gustave Flaubert and Joris-Karl Huysmans...
...here, as we are swept by machine-gun fire and a constant artillery barrage is upon us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." He was hit by a bullet in the shoulder and by a shell fragment in the knee; most of his clothes were torn off; but clad chiefly in helmet and pistol belt, he held...
...will not seek a near but a distant objective and you will not be satisfied with what you have done. All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern which from his separate approach every true scholar is striving to descry...
...fire. Simultaneously. Captain Nolan, the aide who had brought the fatal order, galloped frantically across the van of the advancing brigade, waving his sword. "Had he suddenly realized that his interpretation of the order had been wrong?" No one will ever know, for at that moment a Russian shell fragment tore open Captain Nolan's heart...