Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy obviously has nothing to worry about by refusing to enter, in Garry Trudeau's phrase, "a pissing contest" with his opponent. But not all candidates can be as secure in their races as the heir apparent of America's First Family...
Twenty years ago, when Arnold was just a boy in size 65 liederhosen, a critic coined the phrase "pornography of violence" in reaction to the Hollywood thrillers of the time. Like sexual pornography, it has grown up and grown bold since its tentative inception. Our concept of movie justice has gone from the hero pushing a mass-murderer off a cliff to the hero becoming a mass-murderer himself...
What I had to do was to develop a talent "to save," and I developed it, God knows. I tried to make sure that "manuscripts don't burn," to borrow a phrase from Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita -- and to make sure that Andrei's writing would not rot in the cellars of Lubyanka or some other prison...
Like many youths of his generation, Perelman absorbed himself in pulp literature and vaudeville. When he became a cartoonist and writer at Brown University, the melodramatic phrase coupled with the antic gesture were indispensable parts of his technique. Another campus satirist derived from the same origins: Nathan Weinstein, soon to be better known as Nathanael West, the author of Miss Lonelyhearts. The two men were close friends, then relatives when Perelman married West's sister Laura. It was not, Herrmann reports, a conventional union. Early on, the Perelmans went to Hollywood, where a fellow scenarist, Dashiell Hammett, once noted, "Last...
...into photography? A painter's job, perhaps; or so it seemed to the English painter and stage designer David Hockney, 50 of whose photocollages are on view (through Nov. 9) at New York City's International Center of Photography. In a phrase as memorable for its injustice as its vividness, he once remarked that "photography is all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed cyclops -- for a split second." But between 1981 and 1983 Hockney scarcely touched a paintbrush; irked by painter's block, he turned to photography...