Word: perverted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sexual pervert though he may be, however, Nissen is fanatically loyal to the Patriots. Tim observes that...
Madden and Nissen apprehend the world not simply or sympathetically but indirectly through a theory of hierarchical oppositions. Other, like-minded characters in the novel agree that it's okay to be poor or to be a pervert so as long as one is genuinely a reverse snob and can believe that being at the bottom of "the ladder" is just as good as being at the top. Of course, Mailer's characters cannot accept any such proposition for long: the inevitable resurgence of desire--for status, normalcy, wealth, or what-not-cancels the values of the day before...
...tells Angel before, coincidentally enough, the ominous music begins and she gets bludgeoned to death by the necrophiliac. And, in case we weren't quite receptive enough to realize that the necrophiliac's sexual frustration arose from an overbearing mother, we get the privilege of watching, the crazed pervert suck on a raw egg while staring at a family portrait...
...novel-writing process itself. The dislocations and arbitrariness of all things Slakan are meant to evoke a world without fixed meanings. Everywhere Petworth sees "the sign floating free of the signified." Nearly everyone in the country speaks some English, but it is not English as Petworth knows it ("Now, Pervert," a desk clerk mumbles, "this card I write for you, it is your hotel identay'ii, ja?"). Through Petworth's perplexities with words-and with such other languages as sex, politics and food-Bradbury suggests that life is rather like a monetary system. It can proceed only...
...matter, that the full-stage production numbers wouldn't stretch out thin, would stay in step and in tune. A play with the same book bombed on Broadway and it's not difficult to see how a light coating of razzle-dazzle, a touch of crowd-pleasing superficiality, could pervert Working and obscure its message. But that's not what's happening at the Loeb...