Word: grotesquesness
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The intertwining story lines hardly accommodate a summary. Donny Ribkin, the reptilian agent, longs for his ex-wife, who has taken up with a female novelist--his love for her continues "to grow, like nails on a corpse"; Zev Turtletaub, a brutalizing, gay producer, fantastically successful, is developing a modern...
004 The Henchman (or -woman): Oddjob, Jaws, Rosa Klebb--this is a job for grotesques. Gottfried John as a rogue Russian general looks weird all right, but he has no unique killing skills--just a sneer and a routinely itchy trigger finger. Richard Kiel, you are missed.
Such characters are out of balance, but they aren't grotesques. The best story of this impressive collection gives us the gallant last moments of a severely crippled, middle-aged white woman and her lover, a funny, bop-talking black thief. It is their loving last phone conversation, as they...
Am I the only person on campus who is utterly repelled by the sight of corset-clad grotesques high-kicking in a chorus line? Apparently so, judging from the accolades which have been heaped on this year's Hasty Pudding show.
The people in Nolde's works are lost souls: evil and good, freaks and beauties. The two shows contain a wide representation of his portraits, spanning his entire career. In the watercolors, Nolde's figures acquire a doll-like, clownish appearance which manifests itself in surreal examples of innocence. Nolde...