Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever so little scar. . . . Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. As we become permanent drunkards by so many ...
Although Holden thinks lots of things are funny, he hasn’t much sense of humor; he has the deadpan literalness and the all-or-nothing combativeness of the passionate adolescent. Salinger’s use ...
On the other hand, the tone of the manuscript is sharply subjective. The title of chapter I, "My Eagle," with its sudden symbolism, jolts the reader into an emotional dimension which is in stark ...
“Water for Elephants” is the latest in a string of musicals to close amid tough times for Broadway, joining in the company of “The Notebook,” “Lempicka,” “The Heart of Rock and Roll” and “The Who’s ...
Those lapses conspire to sabotage Time The Conqueror – notably the wince-inducing literalness of “The Drums Of War” (“Why is impeachment not on the table?/We better stop them while we are ...
Documentary filmmakers replace the literalness of reality with playfulness and originality of thought. They show us the world as we could hardly see it ourselves – unless, like them, we would ...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The personification of death is not the grim reaper, nor a pale horseman, nor an Irish banshee, but a parrot. The parrot — all right, a macaw, if we ...
More: The Eagles deploy pristine sound, dazzling visuals at Vegas Sphere kickoff concert: Review Aside from the opening “One More Time” – obviously chosen for its literalness – from ELO ...