Word: namelessness
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...return, to read Les Miserables to him on the way to the Swiss border. Much of the film focuses on the fracturing of this family and their terrible struggle to survive. In the meantime, of course, Fortin is obsessively pursued by his version of Inspector Javert, here a nameless policeman collaborating with the Nazis and a man seemingly as outraged by Fortin's lack of complexity as he is by his untutored goodness...
...coffee and arguing. Eating was a dull affair, enlivened only by combining U.N. food packages in inventive ways. (The recipe for one popular preparation, "brains": fry onions in oil, then combine sour yeast and bread crumbs.) Spring had arrived, but children had given up playing volleyball, football and their nameless street games. Many shops were closed, and those that remained open were poorly stocked...
...this absolutely cannot be avoided, trynot to follow in the foot steps of an unfortunateroommate of mine (who shall remain nameless). Thispoor but well-meaning soul spent a lot of money,time and effort trying to set up the perfectevening for his date. Yet he seemed surprised whenshe spent the night with her usual playmate. Myroommate is till trying to live that down...
...years to inform members of the Class of 1996 that a select group of us would not live in Harvard Yard but would not live in Harvard Yard but would (drum roll, please) instead be put up at a posh Harvard-owned apartment building near the Radcliffe Quad--a nameless building located at 29 Garden...
...Goya has rendered the structure of dark red meat and the spectral, yet dense and greasy white fat is both factual and haunting. These low mounds of form, bluntly placed against a background of no-space black, come out of the same sensibility that recorded the nameless piles of human bodies in The Disasters of War. This is the realization of the inevitability of death that the older vanitas paintings set out as metaphor, but here it is concrete and direct, inscribed in every molecule of sad flesh. One realizes that Goya could see and feel more death in some...