Word: gaspeing
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...room at London Airport. But instead of washing his face, he takes it off. He squeegees out his contact eyeball covers, eases out his teeth, removes his grey wig, strips off his forehead and nose like so much tired bubble gum. And quicker than the audience can gasp "Kirk Douglas!", Kirk Douglas starts redisguising himself as a dapper diplomat. From here on, The List of Adrian Messenger becomes less a suspense movie than a guessing game: Who, among the assorted gypsies, crippled pensioners, organ grinders and ban-thefox-hunt ladies, are really Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra and Robert...
...these transitory periods that we realize how dangerously close we are to living real lives. Without these in-between times, we might undisturbed continue that remote and rotating life with which this, the Academy, is blessed. But now, in the brief gasp between the long sigh of the school year and the heady inhalation of the summer, we are shocked with the rude fact of the world about us: moving books and bricks is brutal labor; traveling is vouchsafed us or forbidden; the world beckons with one hand and slaps our cheek with the other. Tremble not: the surreal veil...
...abandoned robes dressed only in a St. Tropez bikini. Later, moving in an almost ritualistic trance, she slithered to the floorboards to plant a 60-second kiss on the lips of the apostle's severed head, thus achieving a moment of nightmare delight that brought a horrified gasp from the packed house. The East Berlin press was justly enthusiastic about Friedrich's production and Rudolfova's performance, but the sticky thing was to explain what all this decadence had to do with art in a Workers' and Peasants' Paradise. The ideological Neues Deutschland quoted Lenin...
...miracle-the capitalist, citizen-controlled U.S. economy -confounded the doubters. Only a few months ago President Kennedy had uttered bleak warnings of recession. Academicians and government brain-trusters talked worriedly of "high-level stagnation." When the economy got bouncy late last year, they said it was only a "last gasp." Some gasp. As of last week, almost all indicators were still on the rise-and the surge had very little help from government...
This retort can only be feeble, compared with what I feel. I wish I had the talent to adequately convey how revolted I am by this kind of hooliganism. Consider this letter a panicky gasp, on my part, for some clean...