Word: wallower
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...terrific cast, which understands that playing madness is very serious business, and by Richard LaGravenese's wonderfully modulated script. From The Fisher King through A Little Princess and The Bridges of Madison County, he has demonstrated a gift for conveying honest sentiment without permitting us to wallow in it, and he's at his craftsmanlike best here. The flaky charms of Unstrung Heroes will be lost on some hardened souls, and it does have its self-conscious, even slightly self-congratulatory moments. But don't listen to their braying. Listen instead for the minor-key melody of a very seductive...
...Peninsula truly believes in truth in advertising, maybe it should shed its transparent intellecual veneer and instead continue only to wallow in unthinking epithets, giving all readers a taste of Peninsula's real feelings about the personal dignity of homosexuals. Peninsula cannot have both highminded rhetoric and gutter slurs. On the occasion of its fifth aniversary, Penininsula's writers have betrayed the emptiness of their pretensions to inteilectual discussion, making even more transparent the blatant, bombastic bigotry that we've come to expect from them...
Cotan's work oscillates between desire and denial. Its fruit and fish and vegetables are more sacramental than gastronomic, emblems of the variety of God's creation (one of Cotan's still lifes contains a chayote from Mexico, an exotic rarity in 16th century Spain). Your eye can't wallow in such spareness, as it can in the abundance of Flemish still life. It sees the vegetable as Idea, a reading promoted by the fact that Cotan deliberately arranged the objects on strings and shelf to form a hyperbolic curve. The melon opens its delicious interior...
Rather than relinquish its lead, Radcliffe stormed farther ahead, leaving the Terriers to wallow in The Black and White's wake...
...really like FOP. We think it's a good thing that you're getting out into the dirt. May be you could teach your interviewers about the Sandhogs." They're sort of militant hogs. so you've got to be careful with them. The Sandhogs eat, and they wallow, but on top of that, they have spiritual nourishment, and that is in the form of funk music. So you must play funk music, do the hog incantations, and then they know that you're in tune with them...