Word: lashings
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...other hand, leaves very little to the suggestiveness of poetry. Its titles speak for the poetry's overbearing directness: "Forty-Three Year Old Woman, Masturbating," "The Corpse Hauler's Elegy," "The Cripple," "The Suicide," "Child Beater," "Starvation." Ai's purpose seems to be to attack the reader, lash out at the finer sensibilities. Her poems are description of desperate people or small narratives laced with hate and anger. There isn't even any self-pity in her characters--in "The Rivals," an old woman screams out at her cold husband...
...young British consul in Africa, Casement doggedly uncovered and exposed the plight of Congolese natives whom King Leopold of the Belgians had promised to deliver from slavery but instead through torture, amputation and the lash, forced into the production of rubber. As a result of Casement's crusade-obstructed at every step by the "abject pifflers" of the Foreign Office -the Congo Free State, a private monopoly, was pried from ruthless Leopold's personal grasp and placed under the more or less civilized control of the Belgian government...
...Confucius, which, as everyone in China seemed to know, was really their way of denouncing the pragmatists led by Premier Chou Enlai. The ball is now back in Chiang Ching's court, and who knows how she will show her wrath against Chou's group? Will she lash out at such modern composers as Bartdk and Stravinsky, assuming that everyone realizes she means you-know-who and his newfangled ideas? Or will she defiantly schedule a Peking Beethoven Festival and, like Schroeder in the Peanuts cartoon, carry a bust of Ludwig wherever she goes...
...whore (well acted by Marsha Mason) does not, at least, have a heart of gold. What she does have is a consuming pathology that the sailor finds irresistibly attractive. If furies of masochism lash at him, though, they are not gone into. Cinderella Liberty wants to be cute and sentimental and tries very hard to turn behavior like child desertion into the stuff of melancholy whimsy. All during this gruesome exercise there are some sharp supporting performances, notably by Allyn Ann McLerie as a snippy social worker and Allan Arbus and David Proval as a couple of Navymen. James Caan...
...Barber was the person who took it upon himself to disqualify Eileen Lash, the woman who last year first received a college endorsement, from competition for the scholarship even before the state committee had a chance to review her application. His justification for that action--that American institutions, as beneficiaries of the trust fund, have no right to challenge the requirements set by the founder--is a poor substitution of manners for morals...