Word: bisected
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Stop-motion devices, relished by Stoppard, telescope, bisect or reverse the flow of time. The sound of a cuckoo clock, which Stoppard treats as the Swiss national anthem, periodically suspends the action, and the same opening lines of dialogue lead into an entirely different episode. One scene has Joyce arguing that no one would have been remotely aware of the Trojan War had it not been for Homer, a dozen other artists, and his own upcoming Ulysses. Scarcely a word is uttered without a play on it. A few of the puns are punishing, but most of the word play...
Johnson does not consider present policy a failure. The Communists, after all, have been thwarted in their attempt to isolate Saigon and undermine it politically. They can no longer hope to bisect the country at its waist along Route 19. Their third and most ambitious effort, to take the northernmost provinces by storm, has been blocked at great expense to Hanoi...
Claudine was charged with "an outrage to public decency," which carries a rap of up to two years in jail. The publicity-seeking beach concessionaire, who had paid Claudine $7 to bisect her bikini, was also haled into court. Their lawyer argued that the law defines the "outrage to decency" crime as "exhibiting one's sexual parts or making obscene or lascivious gestures." He called Claudine innocent on both counts. "Bare breasts are not an erotic but an alimentary symbol," he said. As for Claudine's pingpong, was it more "lascivious" than the nightly show at the Folies...
...Labour party approach, society is divided economically into the working class and the business class. The Conservatives bisect society politically into the governing and the governed, the leaders and the followers...
...little difficulty achieving. Malta, which belonged to the Knights of St. John before Napoleon took it in 1798, is solid rock and should come harder. Last week she let Corsica wait like a ripe plum, bombed Malta 25 times and laid mine barrages stretching both sides of it to bisect the Mediterranean and divide the enemy warships...