Word: slithering
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...more the inevitable result of a mind that says, "For 347 years we've been producing the most successful people in the world, and so why should we change?" And this arrogance will slither into your brain even as you listen to your last lecture on natural selection and the survival of the fittest, an attitude that trains you to seek success but never to define it. Nobody will challenge you if you take the secure route and follow those who have marched to Chase Manhattan Bank before...
...matter if you have sworn not to let the Eastern establishment whales-on-their-ties and Brooks-Brothers-charge-cards-in their-pockets set get to you, they will. And the idea that Harvard is something very special--and that you are special for having gone here--will slither silently into your medulla oblongata and fester even as you listen to the last lecture...
...painting below form, he could always find significance in commonplace sensations, however distorted the actual form: the death in a goat's skull or the spikiness of a sea urchin, the feather softness of a dove, the looming stupid menace of a bull, a toad's lumpish slither...
...unlike Grass' novel, Schlondorff's film refuses to tie these ugly images together; time has strange dimensions and the laudably meticulous attention to detail--violent and spectacular--leaves us empty. The Tin Drum is full of disturbing moments: Oskar is forced to drink a stone and urine soup; eels slither from the mouth of a slimy horse head; a hand pokes out of a coffin made of packing crates. These images fade in time, however, unlike the icy symbolism of Fassbinder's Marriage of Maria Braun, which treated modern German history with cinematic cynicism...
With Britain's May 3 elections fast approaching, Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher's slashing attacks against the Labor government dominated the campaign. Speaking in Wales last week, she declared: "Change is coming. The slither and slide to the socialist state is going to be stopped, halted and turned back." All that Labor offered, she said, was "a clarion call for inertia and indolence." Ten points behind in the polls, Prime Minister James Callaghan was meanwhile giving low-key performances portraying himself as the leader who "will unite, not divide, the country...