Word: raggedness
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London in 1974 is a war zone as well. A series of bombing attacks by the IRA has the city living in fear. Yet it is better for Gerry Conlon to live here than Belfast, or "this God-forsaken place," as both his father and aunt put it. Gerry has...
Shadowy figures carrying rifles and machine guns line the rooftops. Others with pistols tucked in their belts drink and sleep beneath the balconies of shuttered shops. They are ragged and vicious, an army of thugs pulled together by Haiti's uniformed rulers from the remnants of the feared Tontons Macoutes...
The audience knows the conventions of the genre: Henry will perpetrate a few grisly crimes; Mark will bang his head against the wall of parental disbelief; the stakes will keep rising until the final cliffhanging confrontation (again, literally). Far from defying Hollywood cliches, McEwan endorses them wholeheartedly. Flushed children skating...
Aspects of the work of older American artists recur in Porter's work: Marsden Hartley's love of bony mass, Edward Hopper's treatment of light. But there were very great differences. Porter was a more nuanced and daring colorist than Hartley; his world is more lyric than Hopper's...
Adelphi's primary weakness remains its depth, and Harvard took good advantage of the opportunity to run the Long Island natives ragged.