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...professor who has won a Pyrrhic victory over the English language. His name itself is a sneeze in search of a vowel. His colleagues at a small Eastern college can make out Pnin's pastoral odes to "Tsentral Park," but few realize that "I search for the viscous and sawdust" is a request for whisky and soda. Devoted to the active verb and the present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant...
Vientiane-capital of the least of the three nations carved out of French IndoChina-lay in its habitual half-slumber beside the Mekong River. It was the Buddhist Lent in Laos. Temple gongs bonged in the viscous humidity; saffron-robed monks strutted about beneath gaudy parasols or sat cross-legged in the shade, puffing acrid French tobacco and sipping lemonade. Suddenly there was a stir. Official limousines swept out of the royal palace amid shrieking sirens and flapping royal banners (a three-headed elephant against a red background), bearing Prime Minister Prince Souvanna Phouma to the airport to meet...
...time we went to the U.T., Hitchcock and Harry and we had considerable trouble. If, this time, The Harder They Fall must fall, and fall it must, one can explain the phenomenon by saying there isn't too much to say that it doesn't say better itself. No viscous chestnut, The Harder They Fall pulls no punches in exposing the fight racket. Bogie gleefully battles out the old question of free will versus determinism in this thriller with metaphysical aspirations. The death of a boxer is seen as a boxer would see it. Any Bogie film is good; this...
...Hurwitz, in Mendelsohn's Violin Concerto, displayed accurate intonation and a fine singing tone. The richness of even his lower strings stood out clearly against the greater mass of the orchestra. Pianist Robert Freeman chose another chestnut, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. This piece, with its viscous melody in the middle, is a musical hodge-podge. It serves mostly as a showpiece for pianists, and Freeman gave it a truly virtuoso performance. He showed a wily mastery of the keyboard that partially hid the banality of the music...
Hall began to doubt the cloud theory when he watched squids discharging their ink. It does not form a cloud for a considerable time, but hangs together as a dark, viscous mass. To learn more, Hall experimented with a small captive squid in a light-colored wooden tub. When his hand approached it, the squid changed color rapidly, as squids do. Just before Hall grabbed for it, it turned dark-and Hall found himself squidless. He had grabbed a blob of ink-darkened water. The real squid, now light-colored, was safe at the far side...