Word: jagged
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...unsuccessful. True, he has a few scruples. He does not mainline heroin, he walks out before the end of an apparently genuine snuff film, and he refuses an obliging friend's invitation to rape a drugged and trussed up twelve-year- old girl. He is also sensitive. The crying jag he experiences at his psychiatrist's office may suggest some inner anguish, although it might just as easily occur because he spends so much time drugged to the eyeballs...
...flaws. Most of the story is told by Jezebel, but it is unclear how old she is. Sometimes she makes remarks only the dowdily middle-aged should try to get away with, while at other, moments she demonstrates the lack of perspective characteristic of an adolescent on a hormonal jag. Nonetheless, this flaw does not severely impede the novel, which becomes a wild string of events culminating in a furiously paced race through Mexico as Jem and Jezebel flee home and family for the jungle estate where Jem's mother was born...
...size is too rare for his stores to keep in stock. Telling's only ostentation is that he often rides to work from his home in Northbrook, Ill., in a company limousine or sometimes drives himself in a sleek black Jaguar. He defensively points out that the Jag belongs to his wife Nancy...
...think we can." Thigpen's prescription is repeated in every state, by hundreds of prison officials, judges and scholars. "We have got to look at prison space," Thigpen says, "as a scarce commodity to be used sparingly." The alternative to a Herculean (not to say Sisyphean) prison-construction jag, agrees Carlson, "is to do a better job deciding who ought to go to prison, and for how long. We have to be more selective...
...mean carrying the water bucket; here it involves stashing dope, spearheading escapes and, above all, keeping his big dark eyes open and his mouth shut. The film is canny enough to reveal the horrors of underage incarceration in Brazil before it turns Pixote and his comrades loose on a jag of snatching purses, rolling drunks, courting death. Thus it suggests that society is a prison of the spirit and freedom is the death throe of society: suicidal anarchy. Whenever the film focuses on Pixote's face-solemn, premoral, scuffed like a club fighter's-it seems a snapshot...