Word: taunting
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...months the taunt as well as the talk of Paris, Dutourd's book does not explain anything-it merely accuses. Zola himself might have been proud of its polemic passion; few Americans will fail to be moved -or to understand France better-reading this cry from the heart of an enraged patriot. On Dutourd's lips, the famed French proverb becomes: "To understand all is to forgive nothing...
...five scenes: London, in front of the house of Van Gogh's first love, who rejects him with a shout of "you redheaded fool"; Etten, Holland, in front of the Van Gogh's home, where he is rejected by his cousin Kay with the same taunt; a blazing outdoor scene at Aries; the erotic Maya dream sequence; Madame Louise's brothel, where the psychotic Van Gogh cuts off his ear; and finally the shadowy deathbed scene, in which the painter's death is announced by the offstage firing of a revolver and by the slow illumination...
...parsimonious use of cheap, irresponsible quacks has helped make the mother a hopeless dope fiend. The elder brother is a cynical and shiftless lush, the 23-year-old O'Neill an unconfident and consumptive fledgling writer. Nothing happens: four people merely taunt and bludgeon and resent one another while slowly, and at length explosively, revealing themselves. The play's movement is not forward, but downward and inward. In bedeviling propinquity, the drunken and the drugged exhibit spectral moments of love and convulsive moments of guilt, make accusations that are in effect confessions, go in for cruelties that...
...World the only threat from the surrounding Gentiles is the occasional shouted taunt of "Dirdyjoo, dirdyjoo." Still, Abraham and his family retire into the same womblike, ghetto society from which they had fled. He works for Polsky, an earthy, ham-handed butcher, engages in subtle Talmudic debate about the ways of God and man, irritatedly suffers the attentions of Laiah, an opulently curved harlot, grows in peace and contentment as his son marries and makes him a grandfather. Then God tests Abraham once more, this time with the death of Isaac. Abraham breaks under the accusation that he destroyed...
...device"-a typical trick of Western colonialism. Responding to the words "imperialism" and "colonialism" like fire horses to the bell, Asian and African nations lined up alongside Saudi Arabia, and were joined by the Soviet Union, always ready to have a go at the "imperialists." Sensitive to the colonial taunt, the British and French retreated, and settled for a declaration that slavery is a bad thing...