Word: inners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sighs & Moans. Bomarzo is taunted by his brothers and father; he is sexually ambivalent and frustrated, ghost-ridden and obsessed with death. Suspecting that his wife has been unfaithful with his brother, he orders the brother killed. Then, having built a garden of grotesque stone sculptures symbolizing his inner traumas, he unwittingly drinks poison and dies in the gaping mouth of one of his statues; his only benediction is a kiss from an innocent shepherd boy who skips...
Barthelme is a gifted anarchist in the world of words, and he offers no explanation of his purpose in Snow White. As in Alice in Wonderland, there are plenty of inner meanings and symbols to be found-social, psychological, existential, political. But the search for a point is simply not the point, even though midway through the book the author teasingly provides a questionnaire for grimly (or maybe Grimmly) determined readers. Sample yes-or-no question: "Has the work, for you, a metaphysical dimension? What is it (25 words or less...
...last week: "Smoking marijuana has become almost an emblem of alienation. The alienated student realizes that the use of 'pot' mortifies his parents and enrages authorities." Unable to change a flawed world, the alienated also seek a quick, "autoplastic adjustment" in themselves: "They can create a new inner reality simply by taking a pill or smoking a marijuana cigarette...
...Take a Card." Today an announcer, tomorrow a spokesman. Such is another peculiarity of the show-biz equation. For Carson, the rise was a little more gradual. He is not a Horatio Alger hero but an updated and inner-directed Huck Finn. He was born in October 1925 in Corning, Iowa, where his father Homer-dubbed, inevitably, Kit-worked for a utility company. When Johnny was eight, his family moved to Norfolk, Neb. (pop. 15,200), where Homer (who is now retired) was appointed to the district managership of the Nebraska Light & Power...
Opponents of the Brookline-Elm route of the Inner Belt have begun a last-ditch campaign to get the Federal Bureau of Public Roads to override the state's choice of the route...