Word: monsterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five minutes. But Gacy would take 18 minutes to die. A clog developed in the delivery tube attached to his arm. Gacy snorted just before death-chamber attendants pulled a curtain around him as they struggled to clear a tube. Finally, the two lethal drugs streamed into him. The monster was dead. But was the killing itself monstrous...
...first inning. Outfielder Ed Carnes, the first inning. Outfielder Ed Carnes, the team's second batter of the game, laid down a perfect bunt down the third-base line for a single, promptly stole second and then was driven in by a Derek Gauthier shot off the Green Monster in left. Gauthier, after stealing third, was then driven in on a Mike Glavine groundout, making the score...
...baseball season, and you need a slide rule to read the American League scoreboard under the Green Monster at Fenway...
Ultimately Ionesco must resign, defeated by the complexity of the monster he tries to describe. Innumerable counterpoints between what is rationality and what is naivete, subversion and loyalty, principle and experimentation, illusion and distortion are too much to sort out. Ionesco deliberately muddles his discussions with multiple speakers all declaiming at once, and the simple absurdity of people metamorphosing into thick-skinned pachyderms all testify to his won uncertainty. The effect is a mood of irrationality and mayhem as close to the experience of a real Nazi town as can be imagined. Today his vision nags like a trauma sustained...
...actually was glad I witnessed it. But I wouldn't put it in my top ten great moments as a fan. In fact, I'd place the Monster Truck Jam and Wrestle Mania VI, The Return of Hulk Hogan, ahead of any golf moment...