Word: hindes
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...priestesses preserves this memory, Shardik actually lived as a real bear during the time of Ortelga's supremacy. When Adams' story begins, a great bear appears, driven to the edge of the River Telthearna by a forest fire. Confused and maddened, he stops, rises awesomely on his hind legs, standing more than twice as tall as a man, and beats at the flames. Burned and half-conscious, he is driven into the river, across which he drifts to the Ortelgans' island. There the bear is discovered by a young hunter, Kelderek, and soon everyone in Ortelga believes...
...platform with one figure crawling round the rim and another sit ting in a pool of violet shadow at the back - have to the two beach scenes on either side? Whose are the two heads in old-fashioned collars that rise, like oppressive icons of paternal authority, be hind the platform? Unanswerable questions. What remains, nevertheless, is an extraordinary density and layering of sensation - the Grand Manner returned to figurative art, but scraped...
...these times, the situation was not unusual. The Suburban Bank of Norristown, Pa., found that 10% of its customers who had taken out loans were unable to make their payments. Nor was it surprising that the bank discovered that nearly 75% of those who were be hind in their payments were out of work...
...camera forthrightly, without embarrassment or shame. When Brassai does choose to comment, it is most likely to be in the form of a juxtaposition of incongruous images--a derelict lying on the pavement under a huge advertisement for salad dressing or a close up of the large and powerful hind quarters of a horse cleaved by a gaily braided tail...
...reader is meant to see the lifted eye brow and to smile. Then he is meant to see the sober truth of the statement be hind its mockery. Then the mockery be hind that sobriety and so on. What lies deeper, the mockery or the truth? It is a rare comic writer who can raise the question, and Kundera...