Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refund since the first week of February -- and has lost her job washing laundry in a Chicago-area nursing home. "I'm looking for a job," she said, "but I haven't been able to pay the rent in three months." Her tax preparer, Betty Kafka, believes the IRS antifraud program has been poorly designed in ways that are "especially unfair to the working poor...
...insisted on appending to his work. All that these revealed was the vice of the autodidact-a mania for cultural name dropping. They read like Woody Allen. Thus Baseball, 1983-84, came garnished with references to Red Smith, Bill James, Velazquez, Durer, Max Brod, Satchel Paige and, of course, Kafka; while The Sensualist, 1973-84, was prefaced by quotes from Picasso ("My one and only master!") and Matisse ("It is undoubtedly to Matisse that I owe the most"). Then Kitaj: "Cazanne is my favourite painter too ... Maybe that's why he draws so many...
...well, especially in the countries with the smallest surviving Jewish communities: Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. ``In this country if you're Jewish, everybody loves you,'' says Sylvie Wittmann, a tour guide who takes groups through Josefov, the old Jewish quarter of Prague. ``They think you're Franz Kafka...
...Common Readers to master 850 or so writers. He wants them to pay close attention to the 26 discussed in the bulk of his book: Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Montaigne, Moliere, Milton, Dr. Johnson, Goethe, Wordsworth, Austen, Whitman, Dickinson, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Kafka, Borges, Neruda, Pessoa and Beckett. This grouping, Bloom's elite among the elite, holds few surprises: an obligatory academic obscurity (Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa), four women and a majority of D.W.E.M.s. (Bloom gives canonical status to Homer and the major Greek dramatists and philosophers but does not discuss their works...
While he's waiting for us, he can stop by the exhibit to see the bicycle, the potato and Kafka. We'll be glad to explain to him precisely what this bicycle and this potato mean to us, and what Kafka is doing there. In fact, he wouldn't even have to go to the show. We can tell him what all this means to us right now, today, because this is a live performance, our very own concept. After all, in Sarajevo we're all conceptual artists. Those who don't believe it should pay us a visit...