Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AUDIENCE that can swallow the North American sasquatch will have little trouble digesting the relatively palatable giant rat of Sumatra...
...result of Prose's limited vision: she ropes the characters too tightly into the storytale genre, smothering their powerful individualities under layers of allegories, parables, plays, anecdotes, and recollections in the form of scenarios and dreams. Allegories and suchlike have a strong appeal when they make morals easy to swallow, but the device loses its charm when used repeatedly. The form's vitality is diffused as it becomes clear that the players are just being put through their paces to provide Prose with the ingredients for her morals. These morals are not expecially complex or subtle, and by the middle...
...these are books? Filthy business. What's the point of it? Aren't there enough lies? "The sky was blue, the clouds flew east." Why not south? What people won't swallow...
...assignment in Russia after the Revolution, at Buchenwald when General Patton liberated it, and nearby when Gandhi was assasinated. Unlike almost every other woman photographer, she does not focus primarily on people. A whole series depicts powerful, moving machines. Her portraits all seem calculated to swallow you with merciless eyes that don't see and make you shudder in pain . . . "The living dead of Buchenwald;" "Gold miners, Nos. 1139 & 5122, Johannesburg...
...Cambridge orchestras--that the strings are too few and too weak--does not appear in the BSOT ensemble. In this small orchestra the strings hold their own with a section of fine winds. This evenness in the orchestra makes the opera an easier pill for an inexperienced audience to swallow...