Word: godforsaken
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...summer, when the investigators begin prying open tombs. Says Lennon: "We think there's a good chance we'll find mummies, and they may tell us whether there were epidemics that swept through the area." He would also like to understand why anybody would have lived in such a godforsaken area. Indeed, Gran Pajaten seems more like a place to put a prison than a great city...
Wise Blood. John Huston, at his eccentric best, adapts the Flannery O'Connor tale about a Godforsaken evangelist. For red-clay craziness -weird, scary and funny-this...
...long specialized in the export (sometimes mixed) of fine whisky and great writers. For every Swift, Synge or Yeats who stayed at home, there was a Wilde, Shaw or Beckett who packed off to escape artistic repression at the hands of what fellow Expatriate James Joyce called "a priestridden Godforsaken race...
...other than a pair of soft-drink plants, no agriculture whatever and an export trade restricted to hides and skins (goats outnumber people by better than 2 to 1). "If it were anywhere else," says an Arab diplomat in Djibouti town (pop. 140,000), "nobody would care about this godforsaken place. But because it is where it is, Djibouti matters to many, from neighbors to superpowers...
...America and about the him adapted from his novel. A Clockwork Orange. Plot in this case is better described as gross misinterpretation of the facts; characterization, as a loose form of character assassination. It should all begin with the dawning of Enderby's last day on his own godforsaken planet, but in fact the novel begins with some revealing articles published two years ago in London's Times Literary Supplement. During 1972-73 Burgess was a "writer-academic" teaching Elizabethan drama and creative writing at New York's City College. And apparently he was quite disgusted with everything, even himself...