Word: maw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIKE A LITERARY KRONOS, John Barth has stuffed each of his fictional offspring down his maw and let forth an echoing belch of a novel. The noise deafens; Barth blushes. With reason--many an atrocity litters Letters's past, including the authorial analogues of incest, cannibalism and flagellation. But what Barth does in the privacy of his own imagination is his own business; the worst atrocity he reserves for the hapless reader. The siren call of Barth's in-souciance, his cleverness, his recklessness, beckons you towards a grinding crash on the rocks surrounding these 750 pages, and a lonely...
Karloff's monster is stiff-jointed and barely verbal; Mary Shelley's monster is quick on his feet and can speak like a Romantic poet on an off night: "I will glut the maw of death until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends." Similarly, most popular dramatizations of the novel have singled out the Faustian side of Frankenstein's quest: the monster is his punishment for seeking too much power...
...taking on such an enormous and prickly task, the think tank's researchers knew they were rushing in where only local boosters would not fear to tread. Ah, but they had a computer. Into the electronic maw went 123 quantifiable variables in five broad areas: 1) environment, including indexes for air, water and noise pollution, climate and availability of recreation; 2) politics, which embraces the turnout of voters, number of newspapers and TV stations, and the performance of local government in fighting crime and getting federal aid; 3) economics, meaning everything from personal income per capita to unemployment rate...
...take the company back and said that he will operate it as a privately owned concern under its original name of Levitt & Sons (ITT had called it ITT Levitt). The deal, if approved by the Justice Department, will make the Company one of the few ever to enter the maw of a giant conglomerate and come out again years later in recognizable shape under its original owner...
...Lonely Are the Brave. Kirk Douglas stars in a story of an old-fashioned cowboy caught in the gaping maw of mechanization and impersonalized society. The symbolism ranges from movingly sensitive to absurdly overstated, and the ending is painfully obvious, although not out of place. Walter Matthau is the country sherrif who has little desire to contribute to the immoral badgering of a man whom he respects in a more atavistic than human way, but he is too much a part of the oppression to remove himself from it. Matthau's commentary as he watches the same dog take...