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...beat the biz” (“She Took My Money”) and “This is the last chorus / I don’t want to bore us” (“Greedy Awful People”), others can be just plain silly. Speaketh Iggy the sage on “I’m Fried”: “Deep fried / Re-fried / Stir-fried / I’m fried.” One wishes the band would have written better music and lyrics, but they were probably too “Fried...
...first such belief, it seems, is that a novel about Hitler should be engrossing and disturbing, viscerally appealing, and morally horrifying from the beginning.Instead, Mailer opens the novel in a mode that borders on the farcical, with his narrator focusing on such topics as incest and monorchidism (speaketh the Oxford English Dictionary: “The condition of having only one testis, or only one descended testis”). Thanks, Norm!It’s a mildly amusing and halfway-clever diversion in a book full of them. Did you know that a young Adolf Hitler...
...processional pace. H.B. Warner's Jesus is in the gaunt El Greco mode; the scenes are essentially brisk illustrations of the Gospels. Nearly all the dialogue and narrative intertitles are from the Gospels. The exceptions: a few that mitigate supposed Jewish guilt for Jesus' death. Magdalene: "The High Priest speaketh not for the people." And a Pharisee, at the end: "Lord God Jehovah, visit not Thy wrath on Thy people Israel - I alone am guilty...
...that speaketh to me doesn’t need to use an earpiece,” Sharpton retorted...
...status signal. "Language," said Samuel Johnson, "is the dress of thought." But all over the world people act as though language were mere costume-and usually a disguise. Everybody (evidently nobody can help it) tends to mimic that anonymous signaler cited in Proverbs: "He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers...