Word: rip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost every young writer today is more or less obsessed with demonstrating the inadequacy of the categories through which we see things. But whereas Sommer exercises his ingenuity to subvert the reality principle, the others rip aside the workaday facade of sanity with even less regard for the reader's preconceptions than a genuine madman. They destroy the grammatical and conceptual continuities on which we base our hackneyed understanding without offering anything on which to hang a new vision of things, and the result is often mere anarchy...
...High Cost of Loving. The hilarious private life of a rising young white-collar couple, described by Scriptwriter Rip Van Ronkel and Actor-Director José Ferrer (TIME, March...
...High Cost of Loving. The hilarious private life of a rising young white-collar couple, described by Scriptwriter Rip Van Ronkel and Actor-Director José Ferrer (TIME, March...
...William Graham makes a dignified and interesting figure out of Gogol's pompous cold. Karen Christiani as the object of his apprehensions is rather more wooden than the role requires, but ingenuous and pretty. Many of Alison Keith's lines ring hollow, but her matchmaker is a lively old rip, and she's funny, so what the hell. John Wolfson is occasionally funny as the friend who actually makes the match, but familiarity lessens the effect of many of his mannerisms...
Even as a preteenager, the nameless boy-narrator of Stars is the butt of his Danish schoolmates' gibes. They shrill "Cross-eyes" when he squints. At recess time, they rip off his cap and toss it into the chestnut tree. When he cannot quite make out the math problems on the blackboard and whispers questioningly to a deskmate, the teacher canes him. The boy takes this ugly-duckling treatment philosophically. He believes that his ugly-duckling family, as well as his weak eyes, is to blame...