Word: hauntedness
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At 52, Martin shows the effects of his hard-hitting life. His face is weathered by time and his troubles. His most prominent features now are the eyes, darting to take in every scrap of action on the field. They are dark, with haunted circles that reveal his anguished inability...
Pecola, in The Bluest Eye, wished for blue eyes that would carry her away from the indifference with which plain little Black girls with kinky hair and dark skin were treated. Her ghosts agitated her with visions of a softer feminity than the one she seemed destined to live, while...
ALL THE GHOSTS dreams and tales seduce Toni Morrison and release her inhibitions, making for some truly enchanting writing. She sees wonder in the strangest places, even traditionally non-haunted places like New York City which she can give a curious other-world quality:
In his brief 25 years, Beardsley was disabled by poverty and tuberculosis and defamed because of his association with Wilde and the supercilious periodical The Yellow Book. But the artist intensely disliked the writer and was, in fact, obsessively heterosexual. Yeats was to recall him in the company of a...
THE trend toward screenplays adapted from another medium has perhaps hit its peak over the past year. Whether from a lack of imagination and originality, or simply from a resurgent interest in adapting fiction and drama, original screenplays are becoming harder to find. The translation from another medium is often...