Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with this Henry Koerner? I am pro-contemporary art: my collection of Klees, Kandinskys, Braques and Picassos dates back to 1928. But instead of giving us an abstract symbol, or a clear-cut academic portrait, Koerner depicts the beautiful Leontyne Price as a sagging old mammy with a giraffe neck, and a bovine expression. Insulting, nonart, and inexcusable...
...racketeer with a clipped, cultured accent and a Byronic lip twist, who quoted Nietzsche, drank sherry and drove caddish foreign cars. About the only nice thing about this suave swine was that he would occasionally, in a contemptuous Freudian way, massage the nape of his socialite mother's neck with slender, manicured hands. Edge really goes for hands-only last year it disposed of a sadistic multiple strangler called Big Frank, who had an enormous pair of them. For his services to soap, Big Frank's hands were cast in plaster as if they were Stokowski...
...shouldered six-footer with sad eyes and a snow white walrus mustache, Brahman Pant was headed for a brilliant legal career when he joined Gandhi's independence movement in the '20s. He was jailed by the British three times, suffered a clout on the back of the neck during a 1928 freedom demonstration that partially disabled him for life with trembling head and limbs. He became Nehru's "tower of strength" during such later crises as Kashmir, though he remained a political conservative and a religious traditionalist in contrast to Nehru's socialistic agnosticism...
...varying skill have been made upon her virtue almost daily since she turned 14, and unlike some girls whom men are always bothering, this bothers her, particularly after she leaves home to teach grammar school and falls in love with a Latin master named Patrick Standish. They meet, neck heavily, wrench apart, argue earnestly, and smoke more cigarettes than are good for them. This goes on for months, and toward the end of the novel the reader has begun to wish that Jenny and Patrick would either get on with it or take cold showers...
...Azdak remains Azdak, a bitter man with no illusions about the durability of this golden age, or the tendons in his neck. From the depths of disenchantment and sorrow he sings "The Song of Chaos," which projects into a dreamworld of hope and social justice...