Word: jim
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...Well, here is the real stuff. Not a neo-noir homage, but the genuine india-ink original, "Nightmare Alley" combines the creepy world of Tod Browning's movie, "Freaks" with the relentless cynicism of a Jim Thompson novel. As adapted by Spain, "Nightmare" pulls you into a secret world, with its own colorful language. "You can go back to carny and find another kootch show. But I want to have big dough," is a typical line, delivered when Molly hesitates on trying out the spiritualist "dodge." Throughout the book you get a privileged inside look at the tricks...
...found out that our roommate Tyler had invited all of these people that we definitely did not like into our blocking group. Some underlying tensions about blocking that were present within the group erupted into a rage in Annenberg. Whereupon Tyler hurled a tray at James and Jim yelled out, ‘Fuck you!’ This shouting match persisted all the way back to Weld where James, a big scary jock, picked up the spindly Tyler, with his little feet dangling, and threatened to punch him. But Tyler only responded with...
...nonleague part of our season did what it had to do,” Harvard coach Jim Floerchinger said. “It prepared us for league games. There’s nothing major left for us to work...
...much as €73,453 a year for their employees to read them. What's next? Dixon says he'd love to expand to the U.S., but "we're not in any hurry." And with most of his European competition slain, why should he be? - By Jim Ledbetter Christo Would Be Proud Blue denim, the favorite of everyone from construction workers to Donatella Versace, is about to get a new fan base: architects and designers. They'll be able to take new flexible solar panels - which resemble denim - and drape them just about everywhere. Rigid solar panels have traditionally resisted...
...Spectrum of Brick Lane, a tower of light boxes, reveals its naked anatomy of trailing wires and reused components, echoing the untidy aspects of a built-up area as well as its brash artificial sources of color. Another theme Nesbitt detects is art that "invites a direct encounter," like Jim Lambie's jazzy floor of multicolored vinyl tape that follows and magnifies the pillars and doorways of a double-height gallery. In contrast, Susan Philipsz's art is meant to be overheard - a tune picked out clumsily on a piano; her own voice singing mournfully. David Cunningham's A Position...