Word: nether
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time...
...THIRD POLICEMAN, by Flann O'Brien. A brilliant Joycean romp through the nether world, written by the late Irish novelist in 1940 and now published in the U.S. for the first time...
...addiction, Rooks adheres to a dramatic convention where the drug visions stem largely from objectively presented details of Rooks' past life. This is not to say that all films of psychedelia profit from traditional structuring; but by sticking to a coherent narrative, Rooks and photographer Robert Frank make this nether world accessible to the film's uninitiated audiences, providing something of a public service. Frank comes close to achieving a sensible relationship between the narrative film and the hand-held camera, and between color and black-and-white tootage transposed in editing. Imaginative scene conception, beautiful unfiltered color, and excellent...
...Beckett is more the toddler; he is the child at bedtime who says "No!" with all of his heart and then gently holds out his hand. And like the child, too, in his awful ambivalence, he is beyond-and before-judgment, so close does he tread on that nether world between creation and destruction...
Matter of Mood. In his quest for admission, Wilson now knows that he can count on Italy, Belgium, The Nether lands and Luxembourg for enthusiastic support, on West Germany for token support. And France? The British believe that Charles de Gaulle might hesitate to alienate the other five by black balling Britain as he did in 1963, but that he may try to delay its admission. A delaying operation by even so consummate a strategist as De Gaulle can not last forever. In the long run, the British feel certain of getting in because they believe that the historic trends...