Word: kangaroos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novels of the mid-1920s, Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923) and The Plumed Serpent (1926), veered toward the worship of supermen, blood-consciousness and dark gods. Only in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), his last novel, did he return to the subject of men and women in love that he had discarded with Mr. Noon. Then, throwing caution to the winds, he opened that bedroom door completely and apparently for good...
...comedian will cavort with the Krofft puppets, tell stories about his own childhood, and impersonate several characters, including Chills, a hip saxophone player, and Carlotta, a savvy fortuneteller. The weekly half-hour may be a long way from the Sunset Strip, but it's not in Captain Kangaroo's neighborhood either...
...points, and a year's supply of mental floss, what American philosopher, whose latest book has been ensconced on the New York Times best seller list for 40 weeks, described the stance of a pregnant woman as "like a kangaroo wearing Earth Shoes...
...Crimson reports that a few souls on the Faculty Council were concerned about the image of the CRR (which has been boycotted by students since its inception as a Kangaroo Court to discipline student anti-war activists in the late 60s) as a "court for political crimes." They want to resolve the problem of the boycott by abolishing student representatives. By all means... if, in the name of "free speech" they want to intimidate students from speaking out, then all pretense to democratic rule must absolutely be done away with. We suggest they sink University Hall, creating an underground interrogation...
...Kangaroo, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in June, is a masterly example of the Russian mode of skaz, or first-person narrative in the vernacular rather than in literary language. Aleshkovsky, who tells his manic tale in the voice of the crook, displays a phenomenal command of police, prison and underworld slang, as well as Russian obscenity. The writer is currently at work on a novel about a Soviet exile in the U.S. Its hero is a small-time Soviet Casanova who ceaselessly roams the country in a rented car in search of love and lust. He finds both...