Word: inhabitant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suit. Readers of Plante's other novels know that Daniel becomes an expatriate writer like the author. To the extent that this suggests autobiography, the image of Daniel drawing himself drawing himself is a special effect, a quiet counterpoint to popular entertainments like TRON in which characters noisily inhabit their electronic fictions. -By R.Z. Sheppard
...shaped yellow figure that scores points in a video game by gobbling up dots, colorful fruits and four ghosts that inhabit its mazy world. Pac-Man, however, wilts and vanishes when one of the ghosts eats it. The game was originally developed in Japan and is based on a ravenous folk character whose appetite could never be appeased. The name comes from pahu, the Japanese word...
This is the Depression as a dream - no breadlines, no sitdown strikes, no Dust Bowl. Cannery Row is visibly a movie set, splendidly designed by Rich ard MacDonald and photographed by Sven Nykvist a subtle shade away from the realistic. The burns and hookers who inhabit it are seen as sweet dreamers whose great preoccupation is bringing together Doc (Nick Nolte), a sometime baseball pitcher, and Suzy (Debra Winger), a reluctant "floozy" who talks tough but is as lost in fantasy as everyone else...
...result is both a masterpiece of museological taste and a tour de force of cultural displacement. The New Hebrides slitgongs and the row of towering, slender Asmat mbis totems, some of them 21 ft. tall, seem to inhabit a world of pure form, primitive Apollonianism heavily inflected by Roger Fry. Even the crust of old blackened blood left by ritual libations on some of the African idols is politely referred to, on the museum's labels, as "sacrificial material...
Sugar and spice and every known vice-that's what Beth Henley's plays are made of. The Delta ladies who inhabit Henley's comic universe can be found a few miles south of Jackson, Miss., and just this side of Bananas. There is Babe Botrelle, whose Crimes of the Heart are to shoot her piggish husband (because "I just didn't like his looks") and to keep close company with a 15-year-old black boy. Popeye Jackson, from The Miss Firecracker Contest, knits tiny jumpsuits for frogs and "can hear voices through my eyes...