Word: warpedness
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Camel Droppings. After mastering the Rockettes' patented eye-high kick, explains Linda, the next most difficult task is simply learning how to survive on the Music Hall's big stage, a kind of block-long obstacle course with a jolting, linoleum-covered concrete floor. The three huge elevators...
Perhaps their quest is for what they find: hostility, hallucination, more intense dislocation, the last retreat of death-Bowles doesn't say. After several novels, books of stories and essays, he is still the inscrutable artist. He fixes his characters in his own hopeless wastelands and in the reader...
Renaissance artists prided themselves on their mastery of perspective, which could make a flat-surfaced painting seem to recede into infinity; cubist painters warped the lines of sight to show several sides of the same object on a flat canvas. Today, younger artists are finding that they need even more...
Beetle Cuts. There are a few catches. To get ahead, students must belong to the Communist Free German Youth, and anyone who speaks too frankly about the regime may find himself expelled. Students must take tests in political aptitude before they can take end-of-the-year academic exams. Politics...
The roots of the hostility, Harvard officials think, lie in the coincidence of many different, but related conflicts: Yankee-Irish, rich-poor, and educated-uneducated. But Harvard's dislike for this state of affairs has not warped its good sense: the University must survive in this place, and thus the...