Word: modishness
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...fiction -the sense of time and region. In Albert Camus' The Renegade, his great moral force triumphs over impressionistic style. But Stories and Texts for Nothing, III, Samuel Beckett's abstract exercise in vocalized nihilism, is a dud. So also is Secret Room, by France's modish Alain Robbe-Grillet, a montage of quasi-photographic fragments that is merely abstract and fatally a bore...
Staff members of Fair magazine are viewing the body of Miss Blaisie, an editorial secretary who lias died at the age of 30. The corpse is fitted with a modish sheath dress and has a typewriter on its lap. "You look odd," says Bahs aside to Gianna. She replies: "Don't you think it repulsive to see our Blaisie, our dignified Blaisie, with a bare shoulder and her Underwood on her belly...
GEORGY GIRL. In an ordinary British comedy, Lynn Redgrave (daughter of Sir Michael, sister of Vanessa) displays extraordinary zest as an overweight, underloved girl who dreams only of romance and motherhood. Instead, she finds the path to matrimony an obstacle course of tragicomic misadventures, middle-aged satyrs, and a modish menage a trois...
...GIRL. In an ordinary British comedy, Lynn Redgrave (daughter of Sir Michael, sister of Vanessa) displays extraordinary zest as an overweight, forlorn young creature who dreams only of romance and motherhood. Instead, she finds the path to matrimony an obstacle course of tragicomic misadventures, middle-aged satyrs, and a modish menage a trois...
Ever Since Chaucer. The scene could just as well have been ancient Babylon or the court of Richard the Lionhearted. Falconry's techniques of training and manning hawks have not changed in more than 3,000 years, and falconers still speak a language that was modish in Chaucer's days. "She's an intermewed eyas, and not yet enseamed" means: "She is a young falcon that has recently molted and is still too fat to hunt." A few falconry terms have made their way into modern vocabulary. A "cad" is a person fit for no other occupation...