Word: inversiones
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From the day he first dons silks, walks to the paddock and gets a leg up on a Thoroughbred race horse, the public knows him as a jockey. But around the track, he is called a boy. It is an odd inversion of status for these masterful men, a class...
While it did not match the flood in concentrated devastation, the heat wave caused woeful damage. In Minneapolis, about a hundred marchers and spectators at a summer parade were treated for heat prostration. With the heat wave came an atmospheric inversion that sent air pollution indexes soaring in many cities...
Oscar Wild's masterpiece is half-satire and all farce. Its humor is partly topical, rooted in the decadence of the late Victorian aristocracy and gentry. But its farcical underpinnings allow it to date unusually well. Wilde's dialogue abounds in inversion and paradox, in the replacement of the weighty...
Above all, Hughes' withdrawal stemmed from a deep fear that others would gain power over him. It was an ironic inversion of his own ruthless desire to impose his will on others. In an exchange of messages with a Merrill Lynch executive in 1960, Hughes boasted that for most...
What remains confused, however, is the underlying rationale for the show's abrupt shifts in mood, which are matched only by the noisiness of the set changes. To be sure, Bicentennial Follies is fun to watch; it's certainly possible to enjoy lilting voices and mildly amusing comic vignettes without...