Word: worming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...under surveillance, but she came and went as she pleased. Last August, after the mother died, there was a violent episode when Fidel decided to expropriate the family land once and for all. Juanita started selling the cattle; Fidel flew into a rage, denounced her as a "counterrevolutionary worm," and rushed to the Oriente farm...
...explains Greenberg, is that "you're never certain exactly what scoring the composer has in mind. All the notes are there, but the composer very rarely put down who was to sing or play them." To the formidable task of determining the tempo, dynamics and instrumentation of the worm-eaten scores, Greenberg brings a composer's skill, a musicologist's interest in research and instinctive good taste. He searches for clues to instrumentation by digging through such obscure miscellanea as the purchasing orders for a 16th-century English town band...
...Maupassant's fiction has been likened to that of "a peasant eating the good side of a wormy apple." It is Cheever's peculiar distinction to make his readers relish the Winesap flesh at the same time as he etymologizes on the worm: the importance of his fiction comes from the urgency of his moral insights. This puts his work in a different order of art from that of John O'Hara, a man of greater technical skill with a harder eye for the surface detail of current U.S. life, but one who is limited...
...prostitution after Shlink rebuffs her. Dan Morgan creates a fittingly inscrutable Shlink, and John Lasell acts as harried and erratic as a man in George Garga's situation ought to be. Vernon Blackman, Paul Benedict, and Dustin Hoffman are wonderfully snide and easy-going in the roles of Skinny, Worm, and Babson, Shlink's strongarm...
...kennelside manner that is frequently more tolerant of the animals than of their keepers. Yet Miller's readers have responded by sending him 1,000 or more letters a month, covering a comprehensive range of problems. Miller is up to most of them. "I had a pet worm named Elmer and my little brother ate him up," wrote a youthful Lumbricus fancier. "Could Elmer still be alive?" Replied Miller: "I'm afraid Elmer passed on long ago." A woman reader wanted to know if her male canary, who spent narcissistic hours kissing himself in a mirror, needed...