Word: pelting
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Even a spoof of communism would be permitted on the Russian stage, said Katayev, but "the audience would pelt the author with apples. The public likes communism...
Brave men have stood to the tiger's rush seeking his costly pelt...
...compared by flacks to Elizabeth Taylor and described by associates as a "woman-child" with "something inside her that is 30." In How the West Was Won, she ends up hanging from a tree limb because she lures Old Trapper Jimmy Stewart into a cave, goes for his pelt and tries to kill him. When she is really 30. she'll probably...
Born Circler. There are writers who shoot and there are writers who encircle their subject. Hemingway is an example of a writer who shoots and brings back the pelt. Lowry is a born circler. He scours the landscape-internally of his mind, externally of nature-hoping to surround and throttle the invisible demon that was both the subject and the object of his writing. His individual images are arresting, but what he did well, he overdid. There are page-long cascades of imagery, torrents of metaphors. The Wagnerian school of U.S. writing-Faulkner, Wolfe, Lowry-has apparently never heard...
...many screeching women and teenagers rushed up to kiss the returning heroes and pelt them with garlands of laurel that Archbishop Makarios, Cyprus' new President, hastily revamped a prepared speech to remind his people that Cyprus still faces grave economic and political problems. Added Makarios pointedly: the best thing EOKA men could do now would be to lay down their Sten guns and get to work...