Word: wallowers
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...sage-in-residence Harold Bloom is convinced that it must be a parody of the works of Christopher Marlowe: sensationalistic, and rather less than poetic. “Shakespeare knew it was a howler,” Bloom has written, “and expected the more discerning to wallow in it self-consciously...
...both worlds—serious commentary with some animal sex jokes thrown in along the way? The disappointing answer is no. Though its aspirations may be high, The Goat or Who is Sylvia? quickly succumbs to its subject matter and sacrifices a chance at the sublime in order to wallow in easy mediocrity...
Bush seemed equally confident and brushed aside warnings that last week's victories would be a distant memory come fall, when Senate Democrats mount their counterattack. But then anyone who takes so much pleasure in the hot wallow of his vacation destination must have thick skin. Bush's 1,600-acre ranch in central Texas is dusty, dry and a world away from his father's preppy enclave in Kennebunkport, Me. "The national media will hate it," Bush gleefully told Republican Senators, "but I'm going where it's 98 degrees average temperature, day and night." His Crawford obsession...
...Anne and Neely still self-medicate, stage comebacks and sleep around, but the whole thing feels dutiful, even predictable. In her thinly veiled sketches of the wealthy and well known, Susann was one of the first to wallow in the lifestyles of the rich and infamous. She could not have anticipated the E! network, the O.J. trial and her own literary heirs Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins. In Shadow, the flesh is still willing, but Susann's spirit is gone...
...Bush seemed equally confident and brushed aside warnings that last week's victories would be a distant memory come fall, when Senate Democrats mount their counterattack. But then anyone who takes so much pleasure in the hot wallow of his vacation destination must have thick skin. Bush's 1,600-acre ranch in central Texas is dusty, dry and a world away from his father's preppy enclave in Kennebunkport, Me. "The national media will hate it," Bush gleefully told Republican Senators, "but I'm going where it's 98 degrees average temperature, day and night." His Crawford obsession...