Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason, I think I am Dr. Johnson, which helps me with my problem." He is not referring to his psychoanalyst, who prefers not to see his name in print, but to Samuel Johnson, 1709-84. Woody is his own Boswell and reports that he has an antique gold pocket watch, he sits on a Queen Anne chair and writes with a quill pen, shaves with a straight razor and decorates his apartment with English candleholders, snuffers, and leather-bound first editions. "What I need is a wig and breeches," he adds ambitiously...
...existentialist's "gratuitous act" or pointless crime. He is not. Alex's later story is "like tragic" and expounds a bitter moral theorem. He is jailed and selected by the state authorities for Reclamation Treatment. Under drugs and with his eyelids clipped open, he is forced to watch an endless succession of films showing Japanese and Nazi tortures while Beethoven supplies the sound track. Then, conditioned like Pavlov's dog, Alex is released on society, guaranteed to vomit at the sight of violence or the sound of Beethoven. As one of his brainwashing group observes, "He ceases...
...intention of beginning a concert career until he finishes high school, and that his experiments with tone row composition would never take his attention from his playing. Beaming endlessly above his clip-on bow tie, he posed for a few hundred pictures, then sat down with his mother to watch all the excitement he had stirred up. "How do you feel, Andre?" said Bernstein. "Could you go out there right now and do it again?'' "Sure," said Andre, and he meant...
...mating. And as if that isn't enough. I am thereupon treated to the sight of two newts doing the same thing. Now love-making is a necessary and, from the point of view of those immediately involved, a most delightful thing. But it is not pretty to watch.'' Having got that off his lordship's chest. Arthur Strange Kattendyke David Archibald Gore, 52. the eighth Earl and the tenth Baronet of Arran, stopped watching the telly, polished off the whisky and soda that, he says, lubricates his pen. hitched up his pajamas, and threw another...
Look, No Weapons. Last week, as 12,000 fans jammed Tokyo's Kuramae Ko-kugikan arena to watch Taiho take on a 253-lb. challenger named Sadanoyama, the two contestants began girding themselves in ritualistic preparation for combat. They rinsed their mouths with water to cleanse their souls, wiped their bulging bellies with paper towels to purify their bodies, stamped their feet to drive away evil spirits, scattered salt to purify the ring, and stretched out their arms to show they had no concealed weapons. Then they squatted in the ring, knuckles on the ground, and glared malevolently...