Word: hearses
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God has his prophets and saints, and art has its Pluches-aesthetic Jesuits, Leathernecks of creativity, defenders of aristocratic art-soul against bourgeois art-stomach, men of passion and appetite, of sublime ups and leaden downs. Pluche is a talented, unfashionable, moderately successful painter who is down-or, in Jean...
The age is such that the only nun people would queue up for at the box office would be one who is leaving the church, and the only black, one who is demanding reparations from it. Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn must have lost interest before they wrote the score...
Judging from passage in his short stories and novels. I thought that his position on religion might be antiexistentialist, though he detests labels and categories. Yet many of his characters are skepties. The God of Yascha. the profligate-turned-ascetic in The Magician of Lublin is a God who "revealed...
Ethnic Grist. Still, Cosby's material has a blackness all its own. All ghetto humor is basically ethnic. U.S. minorities have traditionally preserved their identities by laughing at their origins. Cosby's North Philadelphia is as rich in ethnic grist as Manhattan's Lower East Side was...
SAMSAM! she calls. samsam! she hears. And then a bright hilltop away she spots him. He knows she's calling. He stops to listen and his zooming face is the face of a small boy who has blamed his thumb with his own hammer. He tells Girl the obedient to...