Word: gored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superb driveways in America, bordering the Charles, with the handsome fronts of stately residences facing the river." The common needed "a fine fountain." And even Harvard could help, with an art museum to be placed in the Yard, "along the great green terrace, between the President's house and Gore Hall," where the Pusey...
...only book to distill the experience of three centuries of European interaction with the Americas into a paradigm of history, culture, morals, and psychology. He proves that a political novel need not be on the level of satire or gossip, that it can rise above Allen Drury and Gore Vidal and Fletcher Knebel. Garcia's heroes are political heroes, and they are better heroes than carefully apolitical novelists have been able to create...
...addition to these actors, four soloists sing numerous arias and ariosos which reflect upon the drama. These singers were the source of whatever weakness existed in the performance. The accurate but weak soprano of Susan Larson failed to fill the hall. Alto Pamela Gore often shrouded pitch and rhythm with an excessive vibrato. Tenor Ivan Oak had inexcusable difficulty in following the conductor which, together with an inability to pronounce the German text, resulted in a disappointing performance. David Evitts, however, displaying a full-toned but agile bass, gave the sensation of an effortless flow of notes...
...keeps a firm grip on even the most elusive conversation (Shenker's word games tend to be infectious). Suiting his style to subject, he rises to the sublimity of Vladimir Nabokov ("Q. What struggles these days for pride of trace in your mind?"), and caters to the acidity of Gore Vidal ("Have you read any bad books lately?"). Mark Van Doren's answers "seemed to demand the topography of poetry," and so Shenker has reproduced them in verse form. Only once, in an interview with Eugene Ionesco, does he seem to be at a loss for words, and the conversation...
...head getting shorn by a girder, or a pimp choking a whore with Draino). And The Seven-Ups' story of mixed roots in Little Italy--strong Buddy grows up to be a cop, while his weak friend Vito turns crook--is naturalism used to lubricate the gore machine. The Laughing Policeman is most barbarous of all: it primes viewers for two hours of pointless mayhem in the very first scene, when a nameless killer mows down eight strangers on a bus. (If the action slows at other points, Rosenberg tosses in a woman jumping to a splattered sidewalk death...