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...even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing...
...History in the latest issue of Nature, is about as good a missing link as anyone could want. "It has things that are undeniably feathers," exults Richard Prum, of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, an expert on the evolution of feathers. "But it is clearly a small, vicious theropod similar to the velociraptors that chased the kids around the kitchen in Jurassic Park...
...imagine these scenes drawn with an almost vicious talent for illustration - a talent that also applies to the storytelling. French works like a caricaturist, exaggerating the grotesqueries, and simplifying everything else. Her people are moon-faced, big-eyed creatures, often children, innocent until introduced to a world of cruelty or decay. She uses a variety of drawing techniques, from sharp pen lines that outline every dangling ligament, to softly shaded graphite works which give each popping vein a three-dimensional quality...
...woman who seems painfully afraid of men and sex in general, and tells stories about her good friend Brenda, who, after being wronged by a man, disappeared for good. She is diametrically opposed to swearing, drinking and smoking, frequently breaks out into irrationally impassioned monologues about the vicious boys who stoned to death four of the last seven birds of an endangered species, and has an odd habit of collecting men’s sweaters for mementos...
Indeed, the album both bubbles with light and raises blisters on an electrified, shifting surface of streamlined, skittering guitars, snide vocals and soaring vocal harmonies. Hitchcock’s lyrical ruminations range from love to war, from playful nips to vicious gnawing. “Kingdom of Love” begins with a bouncing groove and positively rings with light, though the lyrics are a surreal treatment of overwhelming sexual fixation: “You’ve been laying eggs under my skin / Now they’re hatching out under my chin / Now there’s tiny...