Word: nether
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything flourished-music, art, literature, politics, drama, hunger, murder, and always the gay, furious, melodious pursuit of feminine curves by agitated men." But he never seems aware that the "great" Neapolitan painters were at best secondary talents, and that the true center of painting had shifted elsewhere-to The Nether lands and France...
...approving introduction by Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. In Stalin's day, for all his buffoonery, Terkin ultimately had to symbolize "the ideal Soviet soldier"; in his latest adventure, he is a cockily irreverent figure who gets killed in battle and goes to a "nether world" that turns out to be a sort of Stalinsville on the Styx...
Hell, Terkin finds, is like the Moscow subway, "only lower." It is run by a pampered army of bureaucrats, who spend their days playing dominoes and yelling at the inmates to keep out of their way. A model of Communist planning, the nether world has menus but no food, steam baths without steam, hotels without beds. There is even a magazine editor who "sweats all over" as he "puts in quotes and takes them out again and reads each page from top to bottom and from bottom to top." Says one Big Brotherly ghost: "You don't have...
Only three Crimson teams won league championships--squash, hockey and soccer--but 16 of the 17 varsity squads compiled records of .500 or better. The basketball quintet, traditionally an occupant of the nether reaches of the Ivy League, was the only team to lose more games than...
Ishihara's segment is the most powerful, although also the most unconvincing, in the series. Building on the surrealism in the script with sharp lighting and an enquiring camera, Ishihara places his characters in a nether-nether land, suspended between a nightmare and reality...