Word: underworld
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...knotted cords but speaks no Spanish--for the big city? The Dons call the DC-10 that brought them a "big bird." They don't know how to open a Coke can. As the van enters the Lincoln Tunnel, one of them remarks, "This is the Uccu Pacha"--the Underworld. What will they make of Times Square? Or of the Waldorf-Astoria, where the summit is based...
Kessler, however, was given the opportunity to write about the crime underworld when he was hired for the new HBO series "The Sopranos...
...villanelle again? Two lines that alternate and repeat, then come together at the end and mean something. A villanelle is supposed to be elegiac. What's elegiac again? Concupiscent ducks fly in a crazy syntax over powerboats throbbing in the canal. A mole slinks back to his underworld kennel. Succinct, admirable outcast. I paddle down the stream of unconsciousness. I used to look forward to summer...
...Laura reserves a special room in the underworld for people like me--single mothers who work. In fact, after reading her book, I'm half inclined to try to reconcile with my ex-husband, even if it would mean I have to move in with his new wife and kids. But in other ways I have, like many other parents, successfully built my life around my family. When I recently turned down a full-time job in order to be with my daughter after school, my prospective boss congratulated me for the "sacrifice" I was willing to make...
...remarks about the evolution of avant-garde styles from long-standing traditions in art and literature are insightful. In her chapter on "The Futurist Shift," Gurianova draws a connection between Rozanova's lithographs made to embellish Kruchenykh's narrative poem Game in Hell and the "denizens of the underworld" of Gogol and Pushkin. Noting how Rozanova, in one of these lithographs, "Naked Witch with a Broom," plays with physical forms, assigning a witch's head to a devil's body and vice versa, Gurianova develops a key theme, the "play principle." Gurianova further identifies this displacement of objects and their...