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...this point, Vadim's amused, amusing manner suggests that he is merely playing games of love. But suddenly, surreally, as in the cautionary cartoons of Honoré Daumier or Félicien Rops, the mask of painted sophistication is ripped away to reveal the grinning skull with its swarm of worms. In a vicious series of rebounding betrayals, the husband is murdered, the wife is disfigured, the virtuous young mother goes insane...
Penn took the kickoff and in six plays moved the ball to its own 43, where Bill Gray attempted a pass on a third and five situation. Beizer intercepted the pass behind a swarm of Crimson blockers, and raced up the field for the score. Ward's conversion was good...
...little European boys are anything like little American boys, they are dirty, noisy, dirty, rude, dirty, untidy, etc. The basic fact remains that we are obviously (I hope) not little European boys, so what's so insecure about preferring to resemble what we actually are instead of a swarm of l.E.bs...
Everything Moves. The Peppermint Lounge is the latest shrine for Manhattan's pleasure-sated café society. Scattered in the swarm of habitués, like rhinestones in a bowl of raisins, the interlopers watch with delighted approval as the dancers squirm and wrench...
Like a monstrous guillotine, the wall has slashed the arteries and nerves of Ber lin. It cuts through sewers and subways, severs bridges and thoroughfares. It bisects a cemetery, shears off churches and dwellings. Beside a green canal it becomes an ugly spaghetti-swarm of barbed wire. Along a quiet suburban street, its spine glints with jagged glass. The wall has separated sons from mothers, wives from husbands, friends from friends...