Word: stuttering
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Snarr is confident that things will improve. After all, his whole life has been spent meeting challenges, including a childhood stutter, three Golden Gloves boxing championships in his native Idaho, and a tour as a Mormon missionary in Ireland ("Now that was tough," he roars). Snarr got into billboards because his father, a potato farmer, was too poor to send him to college. By designing weirdly shaped signs that visually jolted motorists, he earned his way through two years of Brigham Young University, then snagged a $400,000 sign contract from Harrah's casinos...
...office himself, prefers to work for "the man I feel is best qualified for the job." His legal prose reflects the cadences of his life: measured, sedate and pellucid. His friends say that his facility with the written word is in part purposeful compensation for his tendency to stutter...
...phantasmagoria of apology and accusation calls for surrealist stage scenery and howling symbolism. A Seine barge becomes a houseboat on the Styx with doomed souls; Charon paddles with bones. Céline submerges readers in his stream-of-consciousness style, a brutal staccato in which about five words stutter out for every three dots. It sustains the impression of uncontrollable anger and unassuageable hatred as Céline rants against every contemporary literary and political figure, against the partisans who looted his apartment in Paris, against the post-Vichy government that imprisoned him. All is'"venom. The language seems...
...Gerald McBoing Doing and Mr. Magoo. Candidly stylized, outrageously unrealistic, they made a kind of claim to be art. Edelmann and Submarine obviously belong to this tradition rather than Disney's. He chooses to seize attitudes rather than to simulate motion. His characters strut, jerk and visually stutter across landscapes that never were. The result is unreal and enormously evocative...
...Stoops to Conquer centers on Kate Hardcastle's (Susan Yakutis) attempts to convince her betrothed, Marlow (Andre Bishop), that he needn't stutter so before gentleladies, since he's so often displayed his knack with the wenches. In the process, Miss Yakutis makes a charming transition from country lady to lusty serving woman. Either way, she's a maid who's real talent lies in raising her eyebrows at just the right moment. Perhaps, she could instruct Mr. Etstein...