Word: gauntness
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...said in his mature misanthropy, "vomit death." He dressed his subjects in leering masks, pitted them in futile struggles against each other. Even his own family was not proof against his scorn. In The Artist's Mother in Death, he stretched his mother's gaunt, grey-faced corpse ironically alongside a menacing array of medicine bottles. Although he never left Belgium, Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern experiments," he boasted. "When I look at my drawings of 1877 I find cubist angles, futurist explosions, impressionist flakings, dada knights...
...Collection. The gaunt, wasted old man with the haunted eyes had given journalism a whole new set of techniques. But, in the minds of many newsmen, he had often misused those techniques to sensationalize journalism, seduce its public and debauch its practitioners. Good or bad, he had left his brand on four generations of U.S. life, in a multiple career as politician, publisher and plutocrat that stretched back beyond the memory of all but the oldest living Americans. At the end of it all, his earthly holdings included...
...Three and a half years in prison camps taught her "that there were just two things which could break a heart; one is the terrible harshness of man, the other is his transfiguring mercy." While the Japs gave her rib-cracking beatings and starved her to a gaunt 80 Ibs., friendly Borneans took long chances smuggling packets of food to her and her two-year...
Along with their permits, visitors to the government's fishing lodge get a chance to sample the famed "Trail Blazer Pancakes" turned out by David Ogilvy, 74, the lodge's gaunt, oracular manager. Last week, after "building pancakes by feel" for more than half a century, Dave Ogilvy set down in his own words his pancake "receipt...
...Really Art? Although Maugham may have made a dressier screen appearance than Thurber presumably will (on Thurber's gaunt frame his expensive clothes give an unfurled effect), several ardent Thurberites have already pointed out that Maugham cannot draw. But, as the question has often been phrased in his home town, Columbus, Ohio: "Can Thurber, either?" For some time now, a psychiatrist has been writing Thurber, offering to cure him of his drawing...