Yet while "The Mess" is undeniably a mess it is also luridly gorgeous.
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They're sipping luridly colored potions with names like "Unicorn Blood" or posing on piles of stuffed animals.
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It's remarkable how much labor Hinkie puts into making what are, at bottom, often luridly anodyne points.
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A no-deal Brexit, until recently an unthinkable prospect, had become all of a sudden feverishly, luridly thinkable.
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Innocent or insidious, these tweaks are not as luridly discriminatory as the blatant, often bloody shenanigans of the past.
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The sky of her psyche had gone Technicolor with hormonal discharge; it was full of huge, luridly burning stars.
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At a time when war was never less practical or advisable, defense budgets swelled to purchase expensive, luridly destructive weapons.
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Richard's new screenwriter, meanwhile, forces the lives luridly together, placing the two in flagrante delicto in a swinging cable car.
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We hope his luridly described murder by lynching proves more than a mere point of departure for Henderson's sprawling Southern Gothic family drama.
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The startup has certainly come a long way from its founders' first luridly green 3D printed laptop which caught our eye back in 2015.
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Or—at the very least—something sweet and luridly coloured, drunk from a novelty picnic cup while you lounge on mismatched deckchairs in your back garden.
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As the prospect of low turnout loomed, the government's campaign turned luridly xenophobic, lavishing money on billboards and posters that linked migrants to crime and terrorism.
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Normos/squares here have a litany of luridly colored, diabetes-inducing "alcopops" on which they can suck to pep them up before their next Tinder date.
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But, unable to find the right director, Mr. Volpe turned again to Mr. Zeffirelli, who gave audiences an even more luridly tasteless take on the work.
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He uses masquerade, puppetry, theatrical lighting and set design and the luridly expressive cinematography of the great Christopher Doyle to create a world of hallucinatory artifice.
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On the shortcomings of the Hollywood "Dream Factory," it's not as vicious as, say, Robert Altman's The Player, or as luridly sour as David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.
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But with so many E number-packed lollies and luridly sauced cones to choose from, the real question is: What to spend that sticky handful of 10p pieces on?
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The setting is a beach or seaside pier, where a faceless group of four or five pedestrians seem to be mourning some unhappy event beneath a luridly grinning billboard.
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In 1959 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship, allowing him to spend nearly two years in New York, where he was awash in luridly colored advertising displays and technicolor magazines.
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The NFL as it is talked, tweeted, written, and screamed about, is a proxy for any number of luridly unresolved national issues, and that's not any more fun than it sounds.
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Such descriptions can also swing the other way, and become luridly fascinating in a way that feels exploitative, as if I am writing pornography rather than reporting on a sexual assault case.
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These problems are often self-created and generally self-evident and most of them have to do with how careless and thoughtless and luridly dumb the NFL is with the game it sells.
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"As a comparison to Siegel's more problematic, yet also more full-throated, luridly bonkers take on Thomas Cullinan's novel, it feels strangely unkinked and scrubbed clean," wrote Jessica Kiang on website The Playlist.
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Unable to refrain from addressing some of their spicier details, which were published separately online, he claimed that he was too canny to misbehave, as had been luridly alleged, in a foreign hotel room.
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Luridly photographed in all their quivering, aspic ghastliness, they're a cross between the stillborn horrors in '70s cookbooks and haute cuisine in the Escoffier style, from the days when white sauces flowed like plaster.
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It opens in "OUTER SPACE" (announced by full-screen captions, no more subtle than anything else here), where the celestial entity hurtles toward Earth past luridly fakey planets out of a 1950s B-movie.
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There are other plays about rape in which a woman's experience is unquestioned, from the devastating, like "Nhirbaya," to the luridly risible, like "Extremities," though stranger rape typically helps make these assaults more credible.
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As luridly hilarious as Raz's gleefully crass and overcompensating machismo were at times, I badly needed this game to confront him with the reality that he was being a creepy asshole, and it never really did.
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Or were we talking about a more primeval Golden State, John Steinbeck's prelapsarian Salinas Valley from East of Eden, or the 60s netherworld of Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem or luridly fictionalized in Play It as It Lays?
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The exposure of racial prejudice is among Fuller's lifelong themes; so is the depiction of violence with a luridly lyrical flair, as in a scene of a gangland execution that leaves a wooden bathtub riddled with leaking holes.
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BERLIN — "We choose what is intense, even if we don't like it," said Jonas Burgert, an artist based in Berlin, pausing, bemused, in front of a stainless steel buffet unit spouting luridly pigmented water on the gallery floor.
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The point is that Trump's luridly delusional response to the coronavirus and his conspiracy theorizing about Democrats and the news media aren't really that different from the way the right dealt with the financial crisis a dozen years ago.
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Mr. Nagy, a London dealer, has brought drawings by Egon Schiele, featuring nudes in curious positions, as well as a luridly colored portrait of a woman in a green blouse from around 1906, by Kees van Dongen, a Dutch-French painter.
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In 2019, an expert hired by the Scouts found that the group's own records — dubbed the "ineligible volunteer files" or, more luridly, the "perversion files" — show that around 12,000 boys have been allegedly sexually abused while participating in Scouting programs.
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She doesn't have to endure the same degree of victimization as the characters Ms. Grier played, but she has problems: luridly edited flashbacks to her military service; a crotchety dad (Mykelti Williamson) who's starting to confuse her with her dead mother.
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In a recent Guardian long read, journalist Bee Wilson spoke to British Bangladeshi chefs, Indian cookery school teachers, and food writers about the future of the British curry house: that late-night, luridly wallpapered, vindaloo-slinging staple of the British high street.
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A couple of months after she filed the suit, yet another post appeared on yet another site, "Report My Ex," written by a man claiming to be the husband who had cheated with Glennon, again luridly detailing a sex act that never happened.
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Auctions of "consumer-sold used goods" may account for a "distinct minority" of the site's listings, but they're still a presence, hawking their wares in typo-ridden, semiliterate come-ons, luridly tricked out in a variety of eye-jangling colors and typefaces.
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Some of the earliest artwork known to have been produced by human hands are the small carvings of voluptuous and luridly detailed female figures called "Venus figurines," which date back as far as the Aurignacian period some thirty-five thousand years ago.
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When I asked Fujimoto what his first introduction to architecture was, he described finding a book about Antoni Gaudí, the wild Modernist experimenter, whose Basílica de la Sagrada Família in Barcelona remains one of the more luridly unclassifiable monuments of the 20th century.
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But Angela Missoni, 58, scion of the Missoni fashion house that was founded in 1953 — and whose languid, luridly colored work came to epitomize the '70s and the constant revivals of that decade forever after — is responsible for more collections than most.
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If you couldn't get a pre-order and don't want to pay some scalper $1,500, or you don't really need the most luridly expensive device available, our review suggests the cheaper iPhone 8 is quite nice and will likely fit most of your needs.[TechCrunch]
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What we see, and rightly so, is a vision of utter despair, a luridly lit scene of torture and mindless obeisance to power populated by giant blue-and-golden birds, a blue earth goddess with four breasts, and a torture victim tied to a table.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 3): 12%What critics said: "It's not that shows can't evolve, but the whole conceit of 13 Reasons Why has been thrown away in favor of a luridly macabre soap opera, starring a cast of actors clearly outgrowing their parts.
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From these rich lodes emerges a history with the sort of granular details — there's an entire chapter, for example, devoted to the knout, the lash and other tools of corporal punishment — that make the terror of the "very name 'Siberia' " so vividly, so luridly clear.
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The NFL was not nearly the lean technocracy it would become, but it was already decidedly not a league into which even a luridly gifted behemoth like Swann could leap from piebald fields strewn with goose shit into the upper reaches of the first round.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Dancing in undies in the middle of the living room, smoky basement beauty pageants performed half in drag, waggish runway models twirling in dresses by Ossie Clark, a friend phoning a friend from a sun-strewn sofa, tulips drooping luridly in the corner.
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Since the late '70s, his art has taken a brain-scrambling multitude of forms: monotonous photographs of German apartments, luridly colorized mappings of Mars, retouched pornography scoured from the web, Man Ray-style "photograms" made with a supercomputer and copies of early-20th-century still lifes doctored to look like negatives.
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Rather than presenting him as a more luridly hued, bombastically outrageous version of himself, à la Alec Baldwin on "Saturday Night Live," The Onion has turned him into a new character: Donald Trump, sensitive loner, stuffing birdseed into his pockets and talking tenderly to the pigeons he keeps on the Trump Tower roof.
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Not because of the toddler dictum "eat your colors" appropriated by health-conscious grown-ups, but to render it fit for Instagram, where her feed has been filled of late with photographs of a red and yellow tomato salad; a luridly magenta beetroot curry; and an icy green cantaloupe melon with a snow-like dusting of feta.
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The Times had a lot to say about "The Fountainhead," and most of it was not complimentary: "All the betrayals, all the dirty, crawling, schematic malice, all the lust and lechery … give it an atmosphere so luridly evil and conspiratorial that Cesare Borgia, the Marquis de Sade and Adolf Hitler could walk right in and feel cozily at home."
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In the days after Waldman briefly left her body live on the radio, Mike Francesa and Chris "Mad Dog" Russo played the clip over and over again on their WFAN show; shows like Opie And Anthony put it in similarly heavy rotation, not just in the days immediately afterwards but for years, less for any pressing sports-related reason than because it is so luridly, lividly ridiculous.
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From tall occult tales about Black Shuck, the Green Man, and Gogmagog to the sodden and scary novels of Benjamin Myers, Samuel Palmer's unsettling paintings of Shoreham to Ben Wheatley's luridly lysergic film A Field in England, there's long been a tradition of imbuing the pastoral ideal with a disquieting sense of paranoia—the countryside is squeezing in on you, always getting closer and closer.
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It was the most disjunctive game-watching experience I've had—the scream-spiral of a first-round upset happening on a small television behind the bar, thousands of people luridly and loudly losing their minds, some talented kids experiencing the largest emotions of their lives on a basketball court far from home, and everywhere around me nothing but business as usual and in proportions that do not so much dwarf the game but subsume it.
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Just in the past few days, President Trump has violated norms of presidential behavior by urging military personnel to "call those senators" to support his legislative agenda, by criticizing his predecessor to an assembly of Boy Scouts, by exhorting an audience of local police to get rough with suspects, and by luridly denouncing to an Ohio audience the "criminal aliens" and "animals" who would "slice and dice" American teenage girls unless his administration were adequately empowered to take action to protect the nation.
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"Or a better way to say it would be that she thought she had to get away from me because I was taking too much of her life, which I guess I was," he said.) In "Seedbed," (1972) — undoubtedly Mr. Acconci's best-known piece, which has in a sense unfairly overshadowed much of his other work — he constructed an angled false floor at the Sonnebend Gallery in SoHo and hid himself beneath it with a microphone, speaking luridly to the people who walked above him, masturbating as he spoke.
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While Lockwood makes clear at the end of the book that he is not an apologist for Castro's regime, which routinely abused human rights and civil liberties, his writing and photographs add dimensionality to a leader widely demonized in the US. He writes: I was amazed at the apparent discrepancies that existed between what was popularly being said and believed about Cuba in the United States and what I actually saw … After three weeks of traveling, including an eight-day, cross-country trip taken in Castro's company, I could find little evidence of the standard image of Cuba so luridly painted by American newspapers and magazines — that of a crumbling economy, a populace in tatters and near starvation, and a political regime that had lost its popular support and was maintaining itself in power through oppression and terror.
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Angollumas have fleshy, water-holding stems adorned with soft and fleshy spines and equally fleshy, luridly colourful five- petalled flowers.
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These stamps, luridly illustrated and irrelevant to the actual emirates they purported to come from (editions included 'Space Research' and 'Tokyo Olympic Games') became known as 'dunes'. Their proliferation quickly devalued them. Because of this, many popular catalogues do not list them.
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Biffle dropped to third when Truex overtook him eight laps later. On lap 140, Marcos Ambrose spun luridly, but he regained control of his car to avoid bringing out a caution. The third round of green flag pit stops commenced on lap 144. Biffle was the first driver to enter pit road on that lap.
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Portrait of George Dyer Talking is an oil painting by Francis Bacon executed in 1966. It is a portrait of his lover George Dyer made at the height of Bacon's creative power. It depicts Dyer sitting on a revolving office stool in a luridly coloured room. His body and face are contorted, and his legs are tightly crossed.
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DRS was enabled on the third lap. On that lap, Ricciardo's low-downforce setup gave him an efficient DRS to pass Alonso for third into Les Combes corner. Ricciardo quickly drew close to his teammate Vettel. After Vettel ran wide onto the damp artificial grass through Pouhon corner on lap five, he slid luridly and Ricciardo got past for second.
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It was described in the Times Literary Supplement as "luridly entertaining fiction". Her novel The Winding Stick was published by Two Ravens Press in May 2009. It was hailed as "a literary classic in the making" and voted book of the year by reviewer A. Brooke on literary website Vulpes Libris. In 2013, the Serbian edition of The Book of Happy Endings was launched by publishers Vulkan.
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These stamps, luridly illustrated and irrelevant to the actual emirates they purported to come from (editions included 'Space Research' and 'Tokyo Olympic Games') became known as 'dunes'. Their proliferation quickly devalued them. Sharjah is therefore known by many stamp collectors for these issues by the Sharjah Post Office shortly before the formation of the United Arab Emirates. Many of these items are not listed by many popular catalogues.
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Horror Stories was published by Popular Publications, founded by Harry Steeger and Harold Goldsmith. The magazine was issued with luridly illustrated covers featuring the theme of the damsel in distress, mostly executed by artist John Newton Howitt (1885-1958). Only one original cover painting has survived. Horror Stories ceased publication in 1941, because of the paper shortage after the United States entered World War II which equally effected other pulp publications.
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Owl Books. p. 104. Boss Dennison nursed a grudge against Mayor Smith that is ultimately attributed with leading to the Omaha Race Riot of 1919. That year the Omaha Bee newspaper, founded by Edward Rosewater in the previous century, luridly reported on fictitious assaults on white women by black men. Each new story questioned Mayor Smith's ability to run the city.Partsch, F. (2006) "Harvey Newbranch and the 1919 Omaha Courthouse Riot".
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In his book Dark Shadows, Harry M. Benshoff wrote, "Perhaps the most interesting thing about the pilot was its luridly lit visual design, one more reminiscent of Italian horror films by Mario Bava and/or Dario Argento than the original series." Critic Mark Dawidziak commented at the 2005 Dark Shadows Festival that much of the pilot was "lighted like a French whorehouse." Thompson praised the cast, in particular Newman and the female performers.
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Mana also commissioned a large mural of then-candidate Trump which luridly depicted the developer-turned-politician as The Joker from The Dark Knight. The mural was modified after the election by the original artists to remove Trump's likeness. Mana donated $10 million to Florida International University’s CARTA (College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts) Program. The gift is $2.5 million in cash and an in- kind donation of 15,000 square feet of studio and classroom space at MANA Wynwood.
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Although Tianqing watches luridly at first, Ju Dou transforms the meaning of his gaze by exposing her bruises and sobbing, forcing him to see her as a human being rather than just a sexual object. Soon, the two are unable to control their passion any longer and engage in sex. When Ju Dou discovers she is pregnant with Tianqing's child, she and Tianqing pretend that the child is Jinshan's. Jinshan suffers a stroke that leaves him paralyzed from the waist down.
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In a contemporary review, reviewing an English-dubbed 88 minutes version, the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that the film is "enhanced by Mario Bava's luridly filtered photography and fluid camera technique, and his effortlessly eclectic direction" The review concluded that apart from the soundtrack which was described as "shattering", the technical credits were "above average, as is some of the acting", specifically pointing out Giorgio Ardisson and Andrea Checchi. Due to the "effective" acting of Cameron Mitchell and the "full-sized Viking ships" this film has been named the best Viking picture made in Italy.
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In 1963, the Junior Carlton's committee decided to proceed with the sale of the existing Junior Carlton building, and use part of the proceeds to purchase the site of the old Carlton. They opted to construct a bold new building described at the time as "the club of the future". The resulting concrete structure, luridly decorated to 1960s architectural tastes, opened in 1968 and is still in use today as an office building. It proved so unpopular with the membership of the time that many left, mainly joining the Carlton.
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As luridly described in a film magazine, the Kaiser has plans to conquer the world while all of the other nations are engaged in peaceful pursuits. The Germans enter France and their U-boats work like sharks in the sea, and after many insults the RMS Lusitania is sunk, causing the United States to enter the war. Before Bernstorff (McEwen) leaves the country, he establishes a spy system headed by Otto Goltz (von der Goltz). Under his orders, German agents burn factories, wreck trains, stir up labor troubles, and interfere with American war work.
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"Egypt in the year 1900". A mummy is discovered by three Egyptologists: Englishmen John Bray (Ronald Howard) and Sir Giles Dalrymple (Jack Gwillim) as well as French Professor Eugene Dubois (unbilled Bernard Rebel, who died three weeks before the film's UK premiere). Assisting in the expedition is Professor Dubois' daughter, and Bray's fiancée, Annette (Jeanne Roland), herself an Egyptology expert. All the artifacts are brought back to London by the project's backer, American showman Alexander King (Fred Clark), who plans to recoup his investment by staging luridly sensational public exhibits of the Egyptian treasures.
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Hoboken Hollow received mostly negative reviews from critics upon its release, with many calling it "exploitive" of the events it was based on. Joe Leydon from Variety panned the film, writing, "Hoboken Hollow may very well be, as its opening credits insist, based on real-life events. But that doesn't prevent this indifferently made and luridly gory exploitation pic from coming off like formulaic fiction of the most repulsive sort." Sean Badgley from The Austin Chronicle gave the film one out of five stars, criticizing the film's one-dimensional and unsympathetic characters, "empty and ineffective" violence, and lack of scares.
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C16 supplement, Zzap!64, August 1987 The Amstrad version (which is the most similar to the original) was particularly well received, scoring 70% in both Amstrad Action and Amtix!.Kane at The Amstrad CPC Games Resource The Spectrum version gained less favourable reviews. Your Sinclair was particularly critical, giving a score of only 3/10, complaining of the "luridly coloured" background graphics and the "dreadfully repetitive" gameplay.Kane review, Your Sinclair, September 1986 Graham Taylor of Sinclair User could find only the character animation worthy of praise saying "the rest stinks", giving a score of 2/5.
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According to Lady Wentworth, "They put an old woman into a hogshead, and rolled her down a hill; they cut off some noses, others' hands, and several barbarous tricks, without any provocation. They are said to be young gentlemen; they never take any money from any." (Wentworth Papers, 277) Historians have found little evidence of any organized gang, though in spring 1712 there was a flurry of print accounts of the Mohocks, their lawlessness, impunity and luridly violent acts. In response there was also some derision from satirists at what they perceived to be sensationalism by the Grub Street press.
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The > people are awakening. In due course of time they will come into their own. > When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary > watch, he turns his eyes toward the Southern Cross, burning luridly above > the tempest-vexed ocean. As the midnight approaches the Southern Cross > begins to bend, and the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry > finger-points the Almighty marks the passage of Time upon the dial of the > universe; and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the look-out knows > that the midnight is passingthat relief and rest are close at hand.
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Collins's other fictions include the somewhat luridly entitled Fuckwoman, a spoof on the superhero genre which details the adventures of a feminist vigilante who hunts down men who commit crimes against women. Set in Los Angeles, it also satirises the movie industry, contrasting Hollywood's emphasis on the image over reality. It has been published in French, German and Italian translations and recently in English as F-Woman. His last novel was The Sonnets, a fictional account of William Shakespeare's life from 1592 to 1594, when the London theatres were closed by threat of plague, during which time many scholars believe that the main body of Shakespeare's sonnets were written.
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On the final lap, Streit was behind Vettel and attempted an overtake to the inside at Lisboa corner but both retired after colliding. Conway kept the lead for the rest of the race to become the first British driver to win the Macau Grand Prix since Darren Manning won the 1999 race. Antinucci was closing up to Conway in the closing laps but was impeded by a slower car in the Mountain section and slid luridly on lap fourteen which left him 1.4 seconds behind in second, and Sutil completed the podium in third. Off the podium, Buemi came fourth, Grosjean was close behind in fifth, Jakes finished sixth having moved up fourteen from his starting position and Oshima finished seventh.
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The aim was to be as luridly bright and "cartoony" as possible. The new look ABC went over well enough; in the UK and the US How To Be a Zillionaire charted in the top 30, while "Be Near Me" was the highest-charting track off the album at No. 26 in the UK, in the Top Ten on the US Billboard Hot 100. Two much-talked-about Eden incidents: Eden wore a dildobelt she made on The Tube, the 1980s Channel 4 live music show, which was a belt covered in "ladyfingers" – very small white dildoes – to look like a bullet belt. The B-side of "How To Be a Millionaire" has a track called "A to Z" which introduces all the band members.
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Abt paced the first group, followed by Turvey and the Jaguar duo of Evans (who made a driving error) and Nelson Piquet Jr. Super pole favourite Lotterer was one of the first drivers to venture onto the circuit and attempt a maximum power lap. He slid luridly through the sixth turn, and then glanced the outside barrier leaving the high- speed turn seven left-hander on his timed lap, sustaining possible car damage given he was eight-tenths of a second slower than Abt. In the second group, Lynn set the fastest first sector time of anyone at the time to go third overall and was fastest despite losing time through car correction in the second sector. José María López (Dragon) eliminated Piquet and Lotterer from super pole with the second quickest group time.
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Florence Claxton's graphic novel, The Adventures of a Woman in Search of Her Rights (1872), satirizes a would-be emancipated woman whose failure to establish an independent career results in her marriage to Young before she wakes to discover she's been dreaming. Arthur Conan Doyle based his first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, on Mormon history, mentioning Young by name. When asked to comment on the story, which had, "provoked the animosity of the Mormon faithful", Doyle noted, "all I said about the Danite Band and the murders is historical so I cannot withdraw that though it is likely that in a work of fiction it is stated more luridly than in a work of history." Doyle's daughter stated: "You know father would be the first to admit that his first Sherlock Holmes novel was full of errors about the Mormons.".
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In 1963, Britain ceded responsibility for the Trucial States' postal systems to the Rulers of the Trucial States. An American philatelic entrepreneur, Finbar Kenny, saw the opportunity to create a number of editions of stamps aimed at the lucrative collector's market and in 1964 concluded a deal with the cash-strapped emirate of Ajman to take the franchise for the production of stamps for the government. Kenny had made something of a specialty out of signing these deals, also signing with the Ruler of Fujairah in 1964, and getting involved in a bribery case in the USA over his dealings with the government of the Cook Islands. These stamps, luridly illustrated and irrelevant to the actual emirates they came from (editions included 'Space Research' and 'Tokyo Olympic Games', with two odd editions issued from Umm Al Qawain including 'British Kings and Queens' and, with summer temperatures in Umm Al Qawain reaching 50° C, 'Winter Olympics'), became known collectively as 'dunes'.
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Mike Duffy of the Detroit Free Press said the show is "luridly derivative" and that "there's nothing remotely hip" about it. Charlie McCollum of the San Jose Mercury News said the show "spends far too much time exploring the whiny angst of the teens".Something's wrong with CW's teen melodrama by Charlie McCollum Tom Shales of The Washington Post said of the show, "you're likely to find more fascinating figures and intriguing dramatis personae in the latest catalogue from J. Peterman."Teen Soap All in a Lather by Tom Shales The show has also come under fire from the Parents Television Council, which called the pilot episode "cliché-ridden" and claimed the overall plot was inappropriate for its teenage target audience because of its depiction of underage drinking, parental suicide and sex, the pilot and finale episodes being named the most offensive television programming of the weeks of their respective broadcasts on the CW network.
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Incinerator, 1947. After an explosion at the controversial city incinerator at Avenue 21 and Lacy Street, Debs pushed through a resolution calling for an investigation into the circumstances of letting the contract."Council Orders Full Investigation of Incinerator Following Explosion," Los Angeles Times, December 13, 1947, page A-1 'Psychiatrist, 1949. Debs was in the forefront of a City Council move against J. Paul de River, the only Los Angeles Police Department psychiatrist at the time, whose activities during the Black Dahlia murder case were said to have resulted in the arrest of two men later released for lack of evidence."Dr. De River Crime Work Under Fire," Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1949, page 4"Police Force's Psychiatrist to Be Investigated," Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1949, page 4 He criticized de River for having written a "luridly illustrated" book on criminal sex cases, using Police Department files as source material.
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Wayne Koestenbaum writes: > Mary Jo Bang's remarkable elegies recall the late work of Ingeborg > Bachmann—a febrile, recursive lyricism. Like Nietzsche or Plath, Bang flouts > naysayers; luridly alive, she drives deep into aporia, her new, sad country. > Her stanzas, sometimes spilling, sometimes severe, perform an uncanny death- > song, recklessly extended—nearly to the breaking point. David Orr writes: > This is perhaps why Mary Jo Bang largely succeeds in her new book of elegies > for her son, called, simply enough, “Elegy.” Bang’s previous four > collections are polished and frequently interesting, but they also contain > more than their share of overwrought and overthought poetry about > poetry....That can’t be said of “Elegy.” This is a tightly focused, > completely forthright collection written almost entirely in the bleakest key > imaginable. The poems aren’t all great, some of them aren’t even good, but > collectively they are overwhelming — which is both a compliment to Bang’s > talent and to the toughness of mind that allowed her to attempt this > difficult project in the first place.
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He suggested that with Pete, the programme questioned the traditional definition of masculinity: "Pete clearly regards himself as a 'real man' and as 'the boss' of his family [...] He also feels he is an expert on women [but] on the other hand, however, Pete's masculine self-image has been repeatedly undermined. The arrival of his ex-wife Pat Wicks [in 1986], for example, provided a view of Pete which had not hitherto been heard in the serial: she told Pauline that Pete was 'boring, selfish and terrible in bed', and went on to torment him by revealing that he was not in fact the father of his son Simon - 'you're not man enough to make Simon'." Buckingham also suggests that Pete was also publicly humiliated on a number of occasions, with the most "remarkable example" being shown in 1987, after he was victim to a practical joke and attended an alleged cross-dressing party at The Queen Victoria public house as the only person in full drag. The episode ended with a close-up of Pete's "tear-stained, luridly made-up face".
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