Word: gauntness
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Untranquilizing as was the heaving exterior, the interior was still more disturbing. What most visitors saw first walking through the caterpillar's insides was the figure of a gaunt man with porthole-sized gaps in his anatomy, holding a staff topped with a mostly black butterfly. This, said Dali in an explanatory blurb, "portrays human anxiety." Next on the way "toward a harmonious tranquillity" came a diaphanous female figure with a winged-egg head, who carried a staff with a crepuscular moth. The third figure was what Dali called "the true butterfly of tranquillity"-a maiden in yellow, with...
...glory that is being celebrated is not of this day, but of some more remote time. President Coty does not have long to savor it. Along with the President's luncheon coffee at the Elysee Palace arrives gaunt Rene Pleven, to announce that he cannot form a government after all because the Radicals refuse to support his choice of Andreé Morice, a "tough-line" man on Algeria, as Minister of Defense. With a sigh President Coty folds his napkin. Nothing for it but to send out telegrams canceling the Assembly meeting-something that has never before occurred under...
Magnificent, grim, irresistible-these were the gaunt men in grey on the third desperate day of battle near Gettysburg, charging into history under Major General George Pickett. Their objective was the stone wall in the center of the Union lines, where Staff Lieut. Haskell and the veterans of the II Corps stood waiting, watching. It was strangely quiet: "The click of the locks as each man raised the hammer to feel with his fingers that the cap was on the nipple; the sharp jar as a musket touched a stone upon the wall when thrust in aiming over...
Stabbing the air with his fingers, shaping if like a symphony conductor, gaunt Johannes Strijdom lived up to his billing. "We Afrikaners," he thundered, "believe that God put us on the southern tip of the African continent to establish, build and maintain white civilization. We must destroy any move toward bastardization. For this reason the government has introduced apartheid [racial segregation] into every possible sphere." At the opposition United Party, which draws its support largely from South Africa's 1,200,000 citizens of British descent, Strijdom leveled a deadly charge: "They are imperialists more concerned with British interests...
...Torrilhon interprets it, Bruegel's Mad Meg, in which a gaunt witch of a woman, clutching a variety of household objects, strides wildly under a flaming sky amid a hell's choir of monsters, is a painted description of "chronic hallucinatory psychosis due to menopause . . . The painting is full of obscene little monsters, and Meg seems obsessed by genital hallucinations. Two other symptoms are her careless and bizarre dress and her mania for collecting things. It is well known that old women suffering from this type of psychosis have a mania for carrying all their belongings...