Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insanity of war and struggling to escape. Undergraduates still see Yossarian as a lionly coward, the first of the hell-no-we-won't-go rebels who had to go anyway. To them, the book's final sentence limns the human condition as well as the hero's: "The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took...
...concomitant of wisdom. Like Through the Looking Glass, Catch-22 overturns commonplaces and makes them fresh. Its optimism is despairing; its doubt is born of faith. "When Yossarian runs away in the end," says Heller, "I never said that he would get all the way. I wrote: 'The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.' But he tries, he changes. That's the best that can be said for any of us." It is the best that can be said of Nichols, who with this major film has discernibly altered not only his career but himself...
...forewarned. He met Zelda in 1918 when she was the belle of Montgomery, Ala., society and he was an Army lieutenant. The very first time Scott was invited to dine with her parents, Zelda so goaded her father that he chased her around the dining table waving a carving knife...
...whatever day it happened, did he think that he might be killed before he might sleep again? Did it happen quickly or did he have time to lie there and think how rotten it all was? Was it a hand grenade, a shelling, a bullet, a knife? What put Tinsley around my neck...
Larry Jansen, pitching coach for the San Francisco Giants, spends his leisure moments slicing up baseballs with a knife. He is convinced that there is a mysterious something inside the new balls that makes them take off like spaceships-especially when his pitchers are on the mound. In a recent exhibition game, Giant hurlers blew a five-run lead and suffered a shameful 8-7 loss to the University of Santa Clara. Two days later, the Giants wasted an eight-run advantage and lost 17-16 to the lowly San Diego Padres. Last week they even let a pitcher clobber...