Word: mortise
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If things are less than swinging in Gass's grey heartland, the big cities are worse: immobile with rigor mortis, "swollen and poisonous with people." Gass pulls a long face at contemporary literary fashions. "It's not surprising," he writes, "that the novelists of the slums, the cities...
. . . She touches one button at her throat, and rigor mortis Slithers into his pockets, making everything there--keys, pen and secret love--stand up. . . .
Macbeth is also endowed with a hypersensitive imagination. Colicos constantly reacts in little ways to the strange sounds that abound around Inverness Castle (this production has a highly active off-stage soundtrack). The dagger soliloquy comes after he dozes off on a bench; he starts to hallucinate in a half...
At U.S. universities this fall, in loco parentis is suffering from rigor mortis.
"We are known," Edward Brooke says of his fellow Republicans, "as people who substitute negativism-a grumbling, carping, protesting rejection of new ideas-for constructive policies." Moreover, Massachusetts' attorney general contends in his first book, The Challenge of Change (Little, Brown), this popular image of Republicanism should be of...