Word: tropism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...FINE MADNESS, by Elliott Baker. A lighthearted novel about Samson Shilli-toe, a poet, souse and womanizer who keeps the plot in motion with his talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops, and his tendency to rant at strangers...
...FINE MADNESS, by Elliott Baker. A lighthearted novel about Samson Shillitoe, a poet, souse and womanizer who keeps the plot in motion with his talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops, and his tendency to rant at strangers...
Sampson Shillitoe, poet, souse, womanizer and pratfalling Prometheus, might be the worshipful nephew of Joyce Gary's artist-as-an-old-grog, Gulley Jimson. The resemblance extends to the knockabout plot, kept in motion by Shillitoe's talent for anarchy, his tropism for cops and his tendency to rant at strangers. Even at the end, when Shillitoe is strapped to the operating table while the lobotomist's needle probes to discover whether truth is beauty, his plight is reminiscent of Jimson clinging to his wall and painting his soaring mural while the walls threaten to fall down...
With relatives in Massachusetts, she has long had a tropism for the U.S. and has always wanted to live here. Now she probably will, since a new show-biz circuit is open to her. She has a twinkle of accomplishment in her eye when she remembers that during her first go at the Palladium "my name, it was down amongst the wines and spirits-the way it is here at the moment...
...systems that, according to Polish-born Composer Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. he can "play the raisins in a slice of fruitcake." The heaviest concentration of aleatory composers is in Germany, where-in addition to Stockhausen-South Korean Composer Nam June Paik (Homage to John Cage), and the German Hans Otte (Tropism I, II) and Austrian Friedrich Cerha (Movements) all preach the gospel of chance. France has Greek-born Composer lannis Xenakis and Italy Composer Sylvano Bussotti. who has written, among other things, a piano piece in which the keys are to be touched but not depressed...