Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question of whether Winthrop House will have a grill this year "depends on whether I get my act together." Goodman says. "It would be a fun thing to do. Most people says it would be a pain in the ass unless I had a lot of people [working for me]," he says...
...rents out the front room to a Puerto Rican mother and two children. If that family wants to use the kitchen, or the bathroom at the far end of the kitchen, they must ask Mallory's permission. On the bathroom door Mallory has posted a sign: DO NOT USE UNLESS YOU CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. Of the two other rooms, one belongs to Michael and Michael's mother Eileen. The other is Mallory's bedroom, nearly filled by a low queen-size bed with an upholstered maroon headboard into which a clock radio has been fitted. Above the headboard...
...Unless, of course, Glynn is telling the gag as a shaggy-building story. He floods the eye and ear with bizarre images and improvised prose. It is as if the plumbing in a conventional novel had burst, swirling the styles of Gunter Grass, Nathanael West, William Burroughs, Stanley Elkin, John Irving and Gabriel Garcia Marquez (without the enchantment of a safe distance and exotic folklore...
...constant air bombardment is probably the major cause of casualties. It also shapes practically every aspect of life behind E.P.L.F. lines. Unless skies are overcast, vehicles are not permitted to move during the day. Trucks or jeeps are hidden beneath nearly every acacia tree. Antiaircraft guns are on constant alert. Every rebel building is covered with vines and tree branches; * some permanent structures have 2-ft.-thick stone walls that can withstand barrages of shrapnel. Civilians are regularly lectured on how to wipe burning napalm jelly from their skin...
...radioactive hot potato to make when dropped. It is the concealed background against which the achievements of Beuys and Kiefer have to be seen, since a large part of their work is an attempt to address the older, mythic imagery of German romanticism, which the Nazis appropriated and corrupted. Unless we grasp the ways in which Hitler's culture took over a large part of the inherited content of expressionism--its obsession with the mystical, the vast, the unconsciously collective and the charismatic, and its magnification of an inbuilt weakness for kitschy spirituality into a noxious rhetoric of state power...