Word: tottering
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Others try to scratch themselves by rubbing against autos, with unfortunate results for the bodywork. Some smash down boundary fences, uproot trees and chase African herdsmen; occasionally, they kill someone. Whether they turn vicious or merely playful, all of them sway and totter about a great deal, as if they were drunk. In fact, they are. Once a year at this time, Kruger Park's elephants go on one of the world's biggest binges...
...bulging eye, now tripping over a clodhopper of a shoe, now stumbling onto a wretchedly knobby knee, all in a never-never land of ambiguity. Having attacked the canons of classical art, he now seems intent on undercutting the distinctions between normalcy and abnormality. The unsettling results seem to totter between a sinister vision and a deceptive festivity. Such ambivalent reactions suit Dubuffet fine. He long ago stated his own criterion: "Art should always make us laugh a little and frighten us a little, but never bore...
Homosexuals infiltrate Her Majesty's Exchequer. Heterosexual backbenchers make hay with the P.M.'s daughter. The P.M.'s wife dosses down with her husband's brother. Ruthless press lords sow scandal and reap circulation. Ministers waffle and ministries totter, but merry England somehow muddles through and the parliamentary wits go right on making parliamentary witticisms: "The only advantage of being in the Lords is that you lose your constituents." In this as in his previous novels (Who Goes Home, The Minister), Maurice Edelman, Member of Parliament for North Coventry, pretends to tell the reader what actually...
...need a supercilious, tuxedo-skinned British barman to insult and be insulted by. The two sons present would like the two fathers present to drop dead. When the girls express their contempt by simultaneously breaking wind and then pelt the place with tennis balls, plaster spills, roof beams totter, and it becomes clear that Kopit is one of the cosmic jokesmiths who want playgoers to read books of revelation between the wisecracks. What Tennis may portend is that self-contained worlds, either private clubs or entire civilizations, invite and perhaps deserve destruction. Nevertheless, the play is more like the rape...
Certainly he was as nimble and tricky a performer on the teeter-totter board of Communist politics as the world has seen. He was unique in being allowed to live abroad most of the time between World Wars. Back in Russia during World War II, he was Stalin's chief propagandist and heaped praise on his boss. After the war, though a Jew himself, he aided Stalin's ferocious purge of Soviet Jews by ridiculing Jewish solidarity and calling Israel a "laughable dwarf caoitalist state." After Stalin's death, Ehrenburg led the fight for freer artistic expression...