Word: mats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...travel agent reappears with irreverent celerity. He draws the widow's hand toward him across the kitchen table, suddenly bends to kiss it, just as suddenly discovers the hand withdrawn and his lips pressed tenderly to a table mat. The next frame, however, finds them bouncing around on her bed, and for the next 80 minutes they hardly ever leave it-except to hurry over and bounce around on his bed. Sometimes they bounce all over the floor. Sometimes they bounce blindfolded. Once they land somehow in a large wooden chest . . . and discreetly lower...
Kaden, once a candidate for the Crimson freshman wrestling team, entered the M.I.T. contest at the suggestion of a friend at the engineering school. The pair registered Kaden as an off-campus student and, once on the mat, Kaden dismembered four M.I.T. grapplers in succession to win the medal...
...worth a prolonged look.* David Hayes's is one. In his second New York exhibition, he proves convincingly that, at 33, he belongs in the top rank of important young sculptors. Hayes, an American, has a studio outside Paris, where he hammers and welds forged steel into mat-black shapes of brute strength. His works are small but weighty, simple but bursting with power. His Seated Beast, with only two legs, has a yowling, cavernous mouth for a head, and his armless Gladiator stares blindly from two huge orbital cavities...
...bottom of the pit, a hundred feet down, stands a house. "You can spend the night there," the stranger says. Hand over hand the man descends a rope ladder. In the house he finds a peasant woman who gives him plain food to eat and a plain mat to sleep on. In the morning he rises early to be on his way, but when he looks for the ladder it is gone. "Please don't blame me," the woman says gently. "Remember, you came here of your own accord." He stares at her, incredulous. "Are you trying to tell...
...common, everyday, squalid home life, with the kids sniffling, the wash on the line and mommy savaging daddy. No one, in fact, slices life with a sharper eye than Bellow. But on the whole, the new novel is disappointing. Moses E. Herzog, teacher-scholar, is everybody's door mat. Things happen to him; he does nothing. He is tossed out of his own home by his wife and her lover. He is bullied by lawyers, psychiatrists, cops, a priest and friends. At the beginning of the novel, he is at least dashing off undelivered letters to all sorts...