Word: stiffs
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...latter include the somber and acerbic hymn of hate to the boredom French lefty intellectuals always attribute to respectable middle-class life, Sunday, 1888-1890. (Does the worthy proletariat ever suffer from ennui? Apparently not.) Nothing is happening. A young husband in a stiff jacket and striped pants is poking the fireplace in a desultory way. His wife stares out the window, her back to us. The folds and pleats of her costume, intensely formal, suggest a caryatid--but a caryatid with nothing at all to support and nothing whatever to do. An equally bored-looking cat, if cats...
...early-20th century German-Jewish elite, it focuses on Conrad Arnheim, a lazy, boorish lout who marries first for business and then for ego. The cover sums up the theme pretty accurately: a married couple, screaming at each other, with fists clenched, stand against a background of a stiff, older-generation, family portrait...
...Farm (AAF) swarmed onto the stage. Above the heads of the crowd beneath them, an inflated condom made its way toward the door. Two girls crouched against the wall of the small room and strained to hear their cell phones. And right in the center of the floor, twelve stiff-haired young men were braced to mosh to their hearts’ content, as soon as they played, like, that song. You know, the hard one…not the down-tempo crap...
Still, two other candidates, Lauren E. Bonner ’04 and Ernani J. DeAraujo ’03, could each offer a stiff challenge...
...shirt, and I saw a scrape on her forehead and possibly blood near the chest area, but it was hard to tell because the woman had dark clothes on,” she wrote in an e-mail. “The girl’s body looked all stiff, and she was on her back and looked like a dead crow with her hands and arms...