… the jewels, the caprices, the menagerie of strange pet animals and reptiles, and all the other affectations and … press agent was. And she was no fool: she lived and died within her means. She was certainly, no skinflint: she … and an obscure music critic on the Saturday Review, are completely consistent with Shaw’s introductory portrait. …
Poetry
… lack of graciousness, the salt-laced crest and crumble of bodies mimicking waves, the freakish winds and seasonal …
… and short-memoried. At the moment it is utterly engrossed, completely sold, and passionately enthusiastic over the … resulted from such legerdemain was then offered to the audience—like a rabbit out of a hat—in the form of income tax … by the Mitchell Controversy. As a result of the oil scandals a new Secretary of the Navy came into office who has …
Essays
… objects hung on walls, tucked under glass, backlit on pedestals: a toaster, a child’s pedal car, a modem handmade in … pregnancy stick. A positive drug test. An axe. They come from Taipei, from Slovenia, from Colorado, from Manila, … longer than their relationship, he said: “made of sturdier material.” When Olinka and Dražen finally found a …
… only for a half day in their married life had Coot been completely in her good graces. The backseat fire burned … Ouida’s house, her old family home. After Ouida’s father died, Ouida and her mother (who died shortly afterward) had come home to live with Aunt …
… may not fight with fate. Earth still holds ope her gate; Come! come! the bells do cry. I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us! Thomas Nashe—”Song” Seeing is … then holding in place, just so, with intricate laces and points, with hooks and eyes, with buttons large and small. …