Word: whiplash
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whiplash Liquor" celebrates the wild, weekend parties of high school. In this ode to "rock n'roll in the cul-de-sac," Ugly Kid Joe also offers a light hearted explanation of just who they really are: "Suburban white alcoholic trash/We ain't glam and we ain't thrash/We're victims of a society/That fucks with me about sobriety...
...produces congenial movie movement. Two of the actors carry this larkish spirit throughout the film. Geraldine McEwan, in devil-doll weeds, makes for a hilariously desiccated witch. And Alan Rickman, fairly drooling with delight at his own wickedness, plays the Sheriff of Nottingham as a vibrant cartoon villain: Snidely Whiplash rampant...
...Barthelme gets the conjugal entropy just right, but, by definition, he is at a dead end. His resolution is to spring an abrupt and wrenching ending better suited for a short story than a novel. It involves a car chase and could use a warning: sudden stops can cause whiplash...
...current era of medical specialization, one rarely meets a man who can relieve headaches, whiplash, knee and ankle aches, tendonitis, toothaches, pre-menstrual syndrome and sunburn...
...beyond this, Rowlandson absorbed -- and anglicized -- a general style: he was a rococo artist, though this is partly hidden by his love of satire (never a rococo trait). He constructed his designs from whiplash lines and curvilinear rhythms. He was devoted to Rubens, preserving on a tiny scale the rush and tumble and fullness (if not the grand muscular articulation) of that master's paintings. British critic Sacheverell Sitwell was right to compare Rowlandson's sketch of guests floundering, bare-bottomed and head over heels, down the staircase at a "crush" at Somerset House to Rubens' Last Judgment in Munich...