Word: staines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is like the paperback Lise carries around with her, which she describes as "a whydunnit in q-sharp major." The reader knows that Lise is crazy from the moment she stalks out of a shop because the salesgirl has told her the preposterous garment she wants is "stain-resistant." The fact that she will be stabbed to death is announced portentously on page...
Piper sit thee down and write in a book that all may read-So he vanished from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed. And I made a rural pen And I stain'd the water clear And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear...
...capers on a stage, mocking the audience with scatological jokes and gestures. A grinning idiot is carried onstage and led to a chopping block. A headsman mimes a blow with his weapon -then chops the victim's hand off to a chorus of cackles, while freshets of blood stain the scene. It is a savage fragment of the cinema of cruelty, a death-in-life image, like T.S. Eliot's perception of "the skull beneath the skin...
...exploded. Only two shots are fired in the movie, and both come from a referee's starting gun during a hilariously corrupt intraservice football game. Instead, there are the results of bullets; men bleed on-camera in great arterial gushes. The wounded are flown in on helicopters and stain their sheets as they die silently. The film's two main characters retain their sanity the way men have always done in the shadow of death, with a gallows humoresque...
...that a box-Brownie snapshot of a posed family group seems to belong to some other time; they have much the same kind of truth and absurd dignity. Samples: ∙BLIND LOVE. A short novel, really. Blind London banker has secretary-companion with birth mark that spreads a liver stain from below a high blouse-collar over one breast. Her husband left her after one night. Banker has house with swimming pool within easy Rolls Royce distance of London. He likes to swim, she cannot. Also on hand is a quack faith healer. These elements might have been mixed into...