Word: pipping
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Great Expectation: Give Pip one expectation and then bring off the pertinent references together in a few pithy chapters. Imagine how much time you'd save--surely enough to real both Hard Time and The Pickwick Paper in one sitting...
...loveliest expression of the season was Don Sutton's line in the Milwaukee clubhouse when the winning pitcher went looking for Shortstop Robin Yount and someone wanted to know how Sutton expected to locate a pip-squeak like Yount in the crush of these burly Brewers. "That's easy," said Sutton. "Robin Yount stands taller than anybody I've ever played with...
Although spinning her tale in fantasy the Princeton professor Oates acknowledges her more serious American roots by evoking shades of Melville and Hawthorne. Oates refers obliquely to the former by means of a character named Pip and her narrator openly corrects "Mr. Hawthorne's" idealistic view of a "humorous" tarred and feathered body. But her minute detailed incredibly dense prose has no American models...
Haider's father-in-law suggests that he join the party, and he does. A major in the SS and an old World War I buddy (Pip Miller) suggests that he join the Nazi officer elite corps and he does. As a member of the SS he could secure the tickets to Switzerland for which Maurice pleads, but he is, by now, too self-intimidated...
From most of the drawings at Knoedler's, the image of landscape has receded. It is displaced-though not wholly abolished-by a curious motif Diebenkorn refers to as his "ace of spades," and which does resemble the black pip on that card pushed and pulled out of shape. It is Diebenkorn's way of breaking up the remote geometry of the Ocean Parks; one no longer sees a distant "view" of a whole terrain, but moves closer, toward this lobed and writhing emblem which suggests either body or still life: the curves of a thigh, a buttock...