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...five students in the office sit on the floor, drinking Coke from paper cups and eating a raspberry danish twist. The talk turns to the house system and concentrations. There have been no calls, but members say this is a peculiarly slow night...
...with astonishing speed. Between 1905, the year he moved to Moscow, and 1915, he ran through the gamut of early modernist styles, from pointillism to cubism. Early works like Floor Polishers, 1911-12, show his assimilative powers: this gripping image of hard labor, where every line reinforces the muscular twist of bodies and the thrust of the feet with their waxing pads on the floor, ultimately derives from Matisse's Dance. Troglodytic, pious and massive, Malevich's figures of peasants from the '20s both assert modernity and deny...
...ever be considered boring, not even potentially. The band's considerable heft and impact reside where they properly belong: in the group's driven, likably demented music, with its passages of unexpected lyricism and its lyrics full of muted menace, in which a sidelong threat can turn, with a twist, into a punch line. The best R.E.M. songs have a kind of intellectual aftershock, and maybe that's what Stipe means when he says he can sense a quake. It's only another song coming...
...attempt to drive home the hardships apartheid has forced on South African Blacks, students at Simmons College imitated, for a day, the racial policy on their own campus--but with a twist...
...intense characterization seems useless when Clara admits that she loves the au pair girl and desperately tries to keep her from returning to Vienna. This unexpected twist is completely alien to the character that Bellow so meticulously created. Nothing earlier in the book prepares the reader for such an incongruous revelation. It appears to come from nowhere and undermine any sense of Clara's character which Bellow may have created...