Word: neckedness
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Dance is the most mutable and ephemeral of the arts; photography records frozen moments of time. Paradoxically, many practitioners of the one have been fascinated by the other. Dance and Photography, by William A. Ewing (Henry Holt; 240 pages; $50), is a collection of black-and-white photos tracing the...
When a doctor finally persuaded her uncle and guardian to find a healthier place, she was installed in a New Jersey "preventorium," an institution where pretubercular children were supposedly toughened up by studying and sleeping in the open air, even in midwinter. Eventually pronounced "cured," the child was first taken...
The dissenters' pleas are answered in Pale Kings and Princes, a wry and rowdy tale of a Massachusetts burg corrupted by drug money. The first-person narrative is a running comic diatribe against such targets as ignorant bartenders, hash-house cooking, thick-necked lawmen and macho, possessive Latin lovers. Most...
The bald, bull-necked man in the dock sat impassively at the edge of his chair listening intently. Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, 66, a retired Ohio auto mechanic, was on trial in Jerusalem for operating gas chambers and murdering and torturing victims at Treblinka, the infamous Nazi extermination camp in...
If that sounds like traditional blues territory, the next two songs (written by Album Producer Dennis Walker) find fresh ground. I Guess I Showed Her is the lament of a prideful lover who took his leave too soon ("Room 16 ain't got no view, but/ The hot plate's...