Word: hemingways
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dutchman gave her the prettiest ring, she agreed to visit him in Honolulu, traveling on a Matson liner. "They were all interested in this long, lanky female traveling alone. We had a party that wouldn't stop." She ditched the Dutchman in Hawaii, but claims she met Ernest Hemingway there. "He called me Princess." As she booked passage home, "I saw this gorgeous hunk of body with the little tiny behind, and I went to the desk and learned that it was leaving that afternoon on the Matsonia. 'Book me on it,' I said." That, she claims...
...BULL Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime--a great title for a play, don't you think? Suggestions of living drama set under some Iberian sun, grace and artistry, pageant and danger, a la Hemingway. When the expected-unexpected happens, the chance all the crowds really come for: the bull gets the matador and the arena roars...
...public is the new and purgative graffito: "Nothing makes sense." The panicked outrage once reserved for those moments when all the reasons for living seem to fall apart has become a truism of everyday life. The list of anti-intellectual intellectuals, which used to begin and end with Hemingway, now runs...
HENRY MILLER came to the life of the bohemians after the Lost Generation had already boarded the boat back to America. Miller was born in the same golden decade as Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But while all the others lived the life fantastic, he was enduring a worklife right in the belly of the capitalist whale, the Grand Hirer and Firer for the Cosmodemonic Company. Miller came to his expatriation and the realization that his destiny was as an artist when he was just on the verge of turning forty...
...there is no evolution...to me there is no past or future in art." And so his ties with the past prove just as integral as his futuristic influence without forcing lines of cause or chronology. A subscriber to classical mythology, Picasso often lets his fascination with bullfights leave Hemingway's virile temporality for the era of the Minotaur. As a symbol of male sexuality for Picasso, the monster figures in a large number of paradoxically delicate etchings, ranting and raping through beds of Grecian flowers and maidens; sexual prowess incarnate of a man notorious for his series of wives...