Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that bitch. I still get confused when I try to remember the day I caught them together. That puta and my Frankie in our bed, while the baby crawled, crying on the floor. Everything was red then too -only it gets mixed up, screaming, the kitchen drawer, the silver knife. And the red again-on the sheets, the wall, my hands, his face, her legs, even mijo's diaper turned red-ha, ha, the red bed -"Shut-up old woman, why are you yelling in my head? SHUT...
...many artificial parts was lawyer Frank Tull. His teeth had been fashioned for him and fitted to his jaws by a doctor of dental surgery ...He had a silver plate in his skull to guard a hole from which a brain tumor had been removed. One of his legs was made of metal and fiber; it took the place of the flesh-and-blood leg his mother had given him in her womb ...In his left arm, a platinum wire took the place of the humerus . . . One hundred years after he died they opened up his coffin. All they found...
...author compares her life with that of an anchorite hermit. In fact, she is anything but a hairshirt recluse. She smokes cigarettes. She drives a car. Like nature, she is sometimes guilty of repetition and a certain atrocious lushness:"Silver trees cut into the black sky like a photographer's negative" and "clouds slide by like a tablecloth whipped off a table." But sooner or later, a pilgrim who refuses to believe in progress, she cuts back to the bone. To an age hooked on novelty, variety and pluralism, her message is as clear as William Blake...
...Good Hope, crossed the storm-tossed Indian Ocean to Australia, and completed the dreary, dangerous, downhill passage round Cape Horn to reach Rio de Janeiro. This week they will weigh anchor to begin the final leg to Portsmouth, where the winner* will collect no cash-just a modest silver trophy, some medals and the satisfaction of winning the 27,000-mile endurance test sponsored by Whitbread & Company, Ltd., a British brewery...
Seven years ago, in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, British Playwright Tom Stoppard turned Hamlet inside out and seemed to prove that even for bit players, great tragedy has no silver lining. When critics inquired about the play's message, Stoppard averred that this is no age for message in the theater. "One writes about human beings under stress," he said, "whether it is about losing one's trousers or being nailed to a cross." To risk a play whose primary level was philosophical, he added, "would be fatal." In Jumpers, that is just the gamble...