Word: lumpishly
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...Could Always Tell A Yale Man, once upon a time. You might not Approve, to be sure, but you certainly could always Tell. Frisky. Groomed. Bumptious. Friendly. Sleek. The flinty granite of the East, the knotted pine of the far-flung Reaches, and the lumpish topsoil of the Midwest all gentled and traveled by four years of mellow College life. Yes, that was the Yalie all right. As far from a top hat as a Hottentot, but withal, a man to remember, to conjure up, to savor-to be reckoned with...
...give the great Russian novelists their widely remarked dramatic powers, and place them ahead of everyone else in a less remarked achievement: the creation of unforgettably grotesque characters. From Mikhail Saltykov's hypocritical Yudushka ("Little Judas") Golovlev, to Ivan Goncharov's chaise-longue lizard, Ilya Oblomov, whose lumpish name has become a Russian household word for will-less sloth, Russian writing throbs with the howls and sneers of a whole menagerie of literary monsters...
...paintings at the Tate-about half of Bacon's undestroyed output-range from his famous screaming Popes and moldering businessmen to lumpish, bloated creatures that may huddle in the corner of a room, sprawl across a couch, or simply stare dumbly out of some indeterminate space. They are often close to being monsters, and sometimes they become great mounds of viscera. Bacon admits to being obsessed by death. "I look at a chop on a plate, and it means death to me," he says...
...being a fanatic for slavery." He likens the two-year imprisonment of Jefferson Davis to Stalin's terrorism, but Stalin was rarely so gentle. When he claims that war is no more justified than one sea slug is in swal lowing another, his elegant prose turns a bit lumpish, like the slugs. He is at his best when he plunges into the minds of his writers and shares their passions; rarely have Grant, Cable or Holmes been so richly portrayed. In understanding them, Wilson seems to say, we can understand the Civil...
...Leon Golub, 37, paints men in pain. His views are frontal and direct: lumpish, lacerated heads with dull yellow catlike eyes. His technique-layer on layer of colored lacquer, chipped, gouged and pumiced-gives the effect of eroded sculpture come hauntingly to life. They resemble certain Romanesque statues Golub saw while on a trip to Italy, but he claims never to "look back" or dissect. "Other painters are tearing man apart, but not me. I'm giving him a monumental image. I want man to survive...