Word: whiplashed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Buchanan writes in an old-fashioned whiplash style and loves her work. Her best years were 1980-81, when Miami became the homicide capital of the nation; she counts 1,191 killings for the period. Many were casualties of the drug wars. She describes gunplay as common, with morning pedestrians sidestepping the night's victims, senior citizens ducking for cover in hotel lobbies, and a New Year's Eve when hundreds of Miamians celebrated by shooting out car windows, power transformers and streetlights. A twin-engine Cessna carrying five passengers landed at Miami airport that night with bullet holes...
...then it all goes blooey with an endless, irrelevant car chase and -- shades of Snidely Whiplash! -- a showdown in a sawmill. Was Badham's heart really in these contortions? Or did he, like us, leave it back at Maria's place, where a smart, sweet comedy was so rudely interrupted...
Well, one could go on, but the point is that the civil docket still makes room for more than whiplash, malpractice, what have you, still accommodates the citizen who has nothing grander to gain than the Republic's concession that he was right and it was wrong, which is pretty grand. In Louisiana, a Vietnamese schoolgirl, no bigger than a pencil sharpened to a nub, had no larger scheme than to publish a newspaper for the "out crowd" at her Louisiana high school, but she ran afoul of her principal nonetheless. In California, a black entrepreneur who sports a thick...
...concept but the tamest in execution. Schneidman rather naively promised an "arena of the psychodrama buried deep in the tomb of the unconscious," but what occurred onstage was a fairly standard day in the death of the House of Atreus. The real pleasures of the production were the whiplash performance of Soprano Hildegard Behrens in the title role and the gloriously haunted Klytemnestra of Mezzo Christa Ludwig. Conductor Seiji Ozawa, leading his first Elektra, sought out the brutal score's elusive lyric elements and found most of them...
...Provencal landscape: the rapid, shifting notation of dots, speckles and slashes in the drawings, with the white paper burning like noon light behind the sepia ink; the characteristic spirals of the paintbrush, which link back to the decorative line work of Edo Japanese screens and point forward to the whiplash rhythms of art nouveau. But this handwriting was not mechanically stamped on the landscape, as the style marks of mere obsessives tend to be. On the contrary, it was infinitely responsive to the nuances of fact. Dealing with the "difficult bottle-green hue" of his famous motif, the cypress...