Word: seeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real villain is the pointlessness of life, and in Paris literary circles this is a very fashionable villain indeed. Author Le Clézio, 27, frankly enjoys life himself-he is an ardent jazz and movie buff-but he is much too clever to let the fact seep into his books. If he had to choose a bedside volume, he says, it would be Alice in Wonderland. Perhaps Le Clézio should reread that work more closely. As Tweedledum remarked of Alice's weeping: "I hope you don't suppose those are real tears...
Useless Hole. The lines were the filed-down ridges of bronze that seep between the pieces of a mold when a statue has been sand-cast in sections, but this technique was not developed until the 14th century. The ancients used the lost-wax process that produced a seamless, one-piece mold-and a statue with no ridges on it. Another giveaway was a tiny hole on the top of the horse's head. Such holes are common on the life-size marble horses found on the Acropolis: the Greeks fitted spikes in them to keep the birds away...
...reflects the distinctive McCullers quality of loneliness and terror. The others are merely mannerists. All that remains praiseworthy is the film's extraordinary photographic technique. Seemingly shot in black and white, the picture is actually severely muted Technicolor. Thus from time to time, faded reds and golds seep through the images to give them an eerie, trance-like quality...
...Random Failure. At the same instant, a couple of technicians standing on a level with the craft windows saw a blinding flash inside the ship. Heavy smoke began to seep from the capsule, filling the white room. A workman sprinted across the catwalk leading to the craft, tried desperately to loosen the hatch cover. He was driven back by the intense heat and smoke, but half a dozen other technicians, some wearing face masks and asbestos gloves, raced to help. One or two would try to wrench open the hatch, then fall back from the scorching heat while others struggled...
...about the time of Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell. Criminal Hierarchy. Written in prison in 1943 and first published in France in 1951, the book creates an intense picture of Genet's closed world. France outside the walls practically ceases to exist; only bare intimations of it seep through. A war is going on somewhere. The prisoners are making camouflage nets for the Germans, rather than mailbags. All sorts of people-"politicals" -are arriving in prison who have no business there. The narrator is indignant that the criminal hierarchy is put out of balance by spiritually hostile elements...