Word: earlied
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...grammar of his colleagues, and shops for mushrooms like Paul Bocuse. He values the purity and simplicity of Western life but rarely enjoys it. Patrick is too busy feeling superior to cowboys, real and rhinestone. Haunted by what he calls "sadness-for-no-reason," this Hamlet in mule-ear boots admires only one thing: horses. Clopping into the sunset on a favorite mare, he exults privately: "I love this scene. It has no booze or women in it." Indeed, it is when those two components are added that the troubles begin...
...Girls' prayers," writes Simon, ''counted for nothing; like animals, they had no souls and no voices to God's ear." Barely out of rompers herself, Kate must care for her younger brother. Later, she is forced to tend a baby sister so her brother can run off to play: "While he, the grasshopper, sang and danced, I, the ant, sat demurely rocking the carriage. He was in the full sun, I in the shade; he was young...
...scales, with an eye in his chest, and on his forehead a horn that rotated at great speed." Supernatural beings stalk the cities as well. In The Power of Darkness, a Warsaw district receives strange tidings: "The word soon spread . . . that a dybbuk had settled in Tzeitel's ear, and that it chanted the Torah, sermonized, and crowed like a rooster." The narrator of The Cafeteria meets a woman who claims to have seen Adolf Hitler on upper Broadway. Her confidant is ultimately inclined to believe her: "Esther didn't sound insane. She had seen a piece...
...stand it does--for Salomon, it soon becomes evident, can really, truly write dialogue. The continuing repartee between Natalie and John, besides revealing humor and a fine ear, clearly delineates a couple of unusual characters. Porter, the stronger actor, fashions a strikingly individual Johnny out of scenes and speeches that often border on the lyrical. There are jokes with a personal stamp, characteristic expressions, a characteristic cadence. After he has left the outraged Natalie for two days, he returns to her with a speech about a pool game that evokes both a concrete scene and a mental state with startling...
...without his boxer shorts for the sake of reaching nakedness in record time for an afternoon frolic. On another occasion Sears ruminates on the temptress Renee's remark "that male discharges were, in her experience the most restorative face cream." Shortly afterward, Sears finds himself lilted--out on his ear without explanation. Distraught, he winds up in the basement of the apartment and has a very unexpected homosexual encounter with the building's elevator man. The world, it seems, is many for Lemuel...