Word: monsters
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...mystery." He generally avoids psychohistory, but observes matter-of-factly that both Hitler and Stalin were paranoid and insensitive to humanity -- that is, unable to accept that other people were as real as they. Both were, in fact, incapable of normal relationships. One word Bullock does not use is "monster," because he sees horror in the fact that they were human...
...sadly, Mythical Beasts is just another sneaky coloring book whose purpose is to get kids to (yawn) learn. It offers a bibliography, for Pete's sake. And some of the literary allusions are a little bit esoteric for the ordinary five-year-old monster fan. Five-year-olds are made to feel like losers if they don't remember that the Hippogriff was, of course, the animal that Ruggiero rode in Ariosto's epic, "Orlando Furioso...
Powers cites the "exaggerated outrage, chutzpah, in-your-face" style of many slammers. He might be talking about McIntyre, whose performances involve lots of shouting and stomping. McIntyre's poem in the semi-finals turns out to be a tale of misery from Frankenstein's monster. The crowd is mesmerized. He stops, and leaves the stage...
...bizarre college of disturbing surrealistic scenes. The plot focuses around Henry (John Nance), his wife Mary (Charlotte Stewart) and the deformed creature that is their premature baby. The beast dominates their lives, driving Mary back to her parents' house with its incessant wailing. Henry, left to care for the monster, seeks an escape through his imagination only to discover the same beast within his own self. The tortuous story culminates with Henry's accidental destruction of the child as he tries to cut away the bandages that shroud...
...LISTING of the great millennia always reminds me of the cross-sections of soil levels that we learned in science class. Topsoil, sedentary soil, shale coal, diamonds, oil, primordial sludge, fire brimstone the boogey monster and the other side of the globe...