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...song and sustain them all so effortlessly? (It's been done before but never so effortlessly, so casually.) "Here Comes the Sun," for example, starts out as something the Byrds might have been able to do-till you get to the part where an instrumental interlude breaks in to invert all the melody lines and the whole thing still makes beautiful sense. Or how else to explain the presence of "Oh Darling" on the album, a song which would have been no more than a flat 1950's period piece if not for the breathtaking ripples of drums and piano...
Both Chayes and Rathjens questioned the effect Safeguard deployment might have on the proposed arms talks "while we get started on Safeguard would be to invert priorities," Rathjens said...
...together from past works. Old dogs doing old tricks is nostalgically acceptable from performers like Maurice Chevalier or Marlene Dietrich, but coolly and perhaps cruelly rejectable from major playwrights. With eloquence and gallantry, Williams introduced to U.S. drama the previously inadmissible evidence of the emotional outcast and the sexual invert and made the stage vibrate to the heartbeats of the violated and the vulnerable. Himself a masterly creator of characters, Williams could not confer that gift on his disciples. An entire secondary echelon of playwrights-men like William Inge, Robert Anderson and Paddy Chayefsky-became Freudian scholastics. They invented...
...subtle shades are worked onto the translucent paper in geometric blocks or bright floral patterns. The inner bamboo frame is as delicately engineered as one of Nervi's tilted arches. Although they look fragile, Reynolds' bangasa are stronger in the wind than regular umbrellas, which reliably invert just when wind and rain are heaviest...
...from Paris to live in the country, squabble, drink, and toss hard truths at one another like bottles of vitriol. Why? Because, says Milan, "two lovers who love one another passionately can only detest each other, as the drunk detests liquor, the addict dope, the gambler cards, and the invert homosexuals." Héléne, a nubile village schoolteacher, is fascinated by the couple's rantings about their free-loving and free-hating past. "Take her to bed and give us a bit of peace!" Roberte shouts at her husband. But Milan, weary of passion, lectures rather than...