Word: horridly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Horrid quasar Near or far, This truth to you I must confess; My heart for you is full of hate O super star, Imploded gas, Exploded trash, You glowing speck upon a plate. Of Einstein's world you've made a mess...
...first book, From Here to Eternity (1951), at least projected a brutally candid image of the professional soldier between wars. Jones wrote it at white wrath out of his own experience in the peacetime army in Hawaii. The wrath is gone now; what remains is spillover Spillane combined with horrid Hemingway...
DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The founding father of black humor in a new and splendidly gutty translation of his classic about the bitter, unbreakable orphan whose horrid childhood and nonage were a lugubrious epic of squalor, filth, misery and hatred...
...paint brushes, which is in the Museum of Modern Art at the moment, is a visual bore. But Rauschenberg's goat with a tire around it is somehow amusing. Kienholz's latest exhibit, an abortionist's chair, complete with curette, bloody rags and fetus, has some horrid documentary interest, even if it need not be confused with El Greco's best work. Tony Smith's huge constructions have a presence (even if they are ordered by phone) that a pile of concrete blocks by Carl Andre have not. Something called Liaison, by John Bennett...
...well selling pretzels," Casebeer continued, "but females are generally better at it than males. They seem to have a feel for when things are done." This is vital in the business, since "a good pretzel is very, very good, but a bad one is horrid. Once you've tasted a pretzel cooked just right you'll never say no," he added...