I feel shy being first to bellow but love Jer so much I just bellow.
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I found myself reading for the reappearances of Gregory Bellow, Adam Bellow and Daniel Bellow, who are richly realized as characters and emerge as thoughtful commenters on their father's life.
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The founding executive director of Broadside was Adam Bellow, the son of the novelist Saul Bellow.
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He said he had helped Bellow write his acceptance speech when Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976, and he visited Bellow's bedside shortly before he died.
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He adored Saul Bellow—adored the work and the man—but he thought that Bellow had made a mistake by continuing to write and publish even as his mental acuity waned.
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Me and My Uncle - The Lone Bellow & Friends 15.
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As you can tell bellow the packaging is quite fancy.
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" Comey is what Saul Bellow called a "first-class noticer.
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Feel free to bellow words or phrases, he says. HELLO!
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The camera's bellow folds up into a compact form factor.
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The DeLuca and Bellow thing needs to iron itself out.
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Among his fiction writers were Edna O'Brien and Saul Bellow.
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Mr. Bellow bolted for the driver's seat, turning the key.
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"Believe, boys, believe," bellow the denizens of Besiktas's northern stands.
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Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth got the call.
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This struggle was complicated by how much Atlas admired Bellow.
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Bellow didn't just model some main characters on famous friends.
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Think Simon Kuznets, Saul Bellow, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Elie Wiesel.
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All they do is stand on a podium and bellow.
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While exports were stronger than anticipated, imports came bellow expectations.
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"And get your hands-" Another bellow, from inside the courtroom.
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Bellow, David Mamet), or a significant religious figure (Richard John Neuhaus).
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Stripped of emissions controls, the trucks also bellow thick, black smoke.
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" Kanye dropped a distorted bellow from Bowie's "Fame" on "The Takeover.
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The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction 2010.
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So do many women Bellow dated in the 1960s and 1970s.
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I always picture them as exclamations you bellow at the sky.
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It's not as though these characters bellow about sin or damnation.
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Like Saul Bellow, whose opening to "The Adventures of Augie March" is borrowed here, he was drawn to every facet of the American parade, and, like Bellow, he could not abide wan expression or the wasted sentence.
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" Saul Bellow explained that populist tradition makes us "wary of the powerful.
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The most Conradian novelist in recent American literature, however, was Saul Bellow.
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His half-century friendship with Bellow was, he said, another high point.
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They surround the corpse and bellow in what she said is mourning.
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Democrats will bellow of scandal, treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors.
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" Saul Bellow once described human beings as "the not-yet-stabilized animal.
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"The clarity of the Earth bellow you is absolutely stunningly beautiful," Koch said.
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Bellow and Nabokov do not come to most minds as a literary pair.
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THERE IS SIMPLY TOO MUCH TO THINK ABOUT: Collected Nonfiction, by Saul Bellow.
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It is 1964, and Saul Bellow has just become absurdly rich and famous.
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THE LIFE OF SAUL BELLOW: Love and Strife, 19373-2005, by Zachary Leader.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Saul Bellow were my early teachers in this.
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I even came to admire Bellow more at the end than the beginning.
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Week after week, disturbing social media news hits, people are outraged, and lawmakers bellow.
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THE LIFE OF SAUL BELLOW Love and Strife, 19753-21975 By Zachary Leader Illustrated.
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As previous biographers have discovered, it's difficult to write an endearing biography of Bellow.
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"Deontay said if he loses, he will retire," King said in his characteristic bellow.
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He then twice bowed mockingly to the crowd before letting out a thunderous bellow.
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And when that finally registers for him, it's with an elephant's bellow of defeat.
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We're already watching the warning smoke bellow, but everyone is too self-obsessed to notice.
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Her trademark hoarse bellow graced the New Orleans-shot video for Beyoncé's "Formation," for example.
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Encouraged by his friend Saul Bellow, he decided to turn the article into a book.
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When moderators tried to provoke him, he didn't bellow about the injustice of it all.
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Perhaps this encounter should have warned Atlas off, but he grew increasingly fascinated with Bellow.
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"I think about you several times a day," Bellow wrote her from Italy in 21968.
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Bellow, for one, knew all about waiting for some words from Ms. Howland to appear.
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She has seven or eight of the brand's bellow-lensed Land Cameras in different colors.
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I'm also reading "Seize the Day" by Saul Bellow, which is a bit of a snooze.
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During the period when they're working to attract females, males bellow louder and become more aggressive.
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A lot of Anti's appeal is that it allows Rihanna to whine, howl, bellow, and whisper.
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"But this is wonderful!" you would bellow when a work of art or meal delighted you.
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"In hospitals he found his society," his friend Saul Bellow wrote about Berryman's stints in rehab.
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The vein that successfully keeps one focused on Bellow, and enchanted, is the novelist's excerpted prose.
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Others are to figures as various as Edmund Wilson, Allen Tate, Saul Bellow and Susan Sontag.
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They bellow their rebellion in catchy songs; they go on childish quests to claim their maturity.
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It's OK to want to bellow with your friends and family; that's what makes karaoke fun.
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Bellow, bid our father the Sea King rise from the depths full foul in his fury!
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His voice has a bellow mode, which he deploys mostly with irony—mock-bravado or command.
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In one corner there is a handgrip heart rate monitor and one bulb hanging bellow the rest.
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For hosts, a president from the opposition party offers a target about whom to bellow and kvetch.
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MODERNITY AND ITS DISCONTENTSMaking and Unmaking the Bourgeois From Machiavelli to Bellow By Steven B. Smith402 pp.
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Over the years it took Atlas to research the book, his relationship with Bellow grew increasingly rancorous.
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The reader, however, is hard pressed to sympathize with the idea that he did not understand Bellow.
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The only sounds that interrupted the game were an occasional furious bellow from one minister or another.
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She sounds more comfortable when the songs demand over-enthusiasm, when she allows herself room to bellow.
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Winners have included international literary giants like Saul Bellow, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison.
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Among this area's most famous residents were Leonard Cohen and the writers Saul Bellow and Mordecai Richler.
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In its heyday, it published writers like Katherine Anne Porter, Dylan Thomas, Flannery O'Connor and Saul Bellow.
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It was Philip Roth, he said, who eventually suggested that he take on a biography of Bellow.
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As a well-known neoconservative culture warrior, Mr. Bellow is an unlikely emissary for fostering bipartisan dialogue.
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But does that lead to the conclusion that Nobel-winning authors like Mr. Bellow are for suckers?
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In arguing that Bellow is the central figure in the landscape of American literature, for instance, Amis sees fit to mount a counterargument against the writer he perceives as Bellow's only viable competitor, "the only American who gives Bellow any serious trouble" in the heavyweight title bout: Henry James.
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Sometimes due to lighting, photos can turn out too yellow, as in the example bellow, or eerily blue.
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People like Henry Miller and Saul Bellow were not writing about the lives of people like Faith Darwin.
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"THE MEANING OF TEAMWORK?" he'd bellow, sending his interviewers' notes whirling through the air like a paper blizzard.
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He was not a maker of exquisite sentences like his peers and rivals John Updike and Saul Bellow.
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"I want to see you do well," Bellow, who was 20153 years older, wrote her in August 1961.
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When women wearing white came to the American novelist Saul Bellow in 1976, for example, he was irritated.
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When white-clad maidens came to the American novelist Saul Bellow in 1976, for example, he was irritated.
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Leader finds Bellow out in his letters, unpublished manuscripts and published books, and pulls gems into the light.
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He went on to bellow his views on the white race, occasionally using profanity to punctuate his point.
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It was here that he threw his legendary parties, with guests ranging from Saul Bellow to Shirley MacLaine.
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Bellow all you like about America First, or la France pour les Français, or anyplace else über alles.
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Below he talks about his conversations with Bellow, his struggles starting out on this latest project and more.
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As the meeting ends, they gather in a huddle, arms draped over shoulders, to bellow a war cry.
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When you get in line at a Dunkin' Donuts, they don't condescendingly bellow the coffee options at you.
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The evidence suggests that it is currently defunct, probably because it seems to have been carried by Bellow.
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"This is what you signed up for," we bellow back, eagerly refreshing our browsers for the latest pap snap.
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A friend has a "wonderful breathing bellow of a laugh"; a row of bungalows resembles biscuits in a tin.
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Here's VICE contributing illustrator Heather Benjamin holding up a comic she found that made us both bellow in excitement.
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While we settled into the first position, the app, to my bitter disappointment, started to bellow out some funk.
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The sons' humiliations climax with the oldest, Gregory's, tumultuous speech at a luncheon after Bellow accepted the Nobel Prize.
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Figures like Philip Roth, Alfred Kazin and the younger Saul Bellow embraced American society in all its cacophonous energy.
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THE RUB OF TIME Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017 By Martin Amis 416 pp.
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But regardless of mode, flooring the Alfa will get you the raucous bellow at the high end of the tachometer.
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Photo via GettyPicture this: you're at home, alone, and you suddenly feel an overwhelming urge to bellow into the abyss.
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You can also choose from your running apps to pick which one you want to appear bellow your primary app.
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Its market capitalization fell bellow that of bitcoin cash, as XRP's price slid to 95 cents by 3:25 a.m.
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PEN America announced on Tuesday that Toni Morrison had won the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.
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Atlas published two biographies—of the poet Delmore Schwartz and the novelist Saul Bellow —both of which harrowed unbroken ground.
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The writer Amos Oz recalled most vividly from his friendship with Bellow an exchange that they shared privately about death.
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Though the resulting book was not an authorized biography, he did have the cooperation of Bellow, who died in 2005.
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And the orgone accumulator enjoyed a revival, with the likes of Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and Sean Connery becoming fans.
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The deep, guttural bellow of this V-25 made me grin like a 24.5-year-old whenever I let it rip.
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As late as 2015, when a new biography of Bellow appeared, this perception continued to cloud the reputation of Atlas's book.
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David Auburn's adaptation of the 210 Saul Bellow novel was commissioned and custom-built for the theater's 251-seat thrust stage.
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Gregory CowlesSenior Editor, Books THE RUB OF TIME: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1994-2017, by Martin Amis.
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You might think of the military as a steadfast chain of command, where generals bellow out orders and soldiers disdainfully comply.
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Black smoke consistent with burning plastic continued to bellow last week from many of the chimneys that tower over the village.
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The letters chronicle his intellectual friendships with Stanley Edgar Hyman, Richard Wright, Kenneth Burke, Saul Bellow, Albert Murray and Michael Harper.
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I'll never get tired of hearing him bellow "The moooooooooooon!" as he fumbles with an increasingly varied assortment of window coverings.
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But the Free Press's conservatism was, Bellow has argued, not the same as the conservatism of the current major trade presses.
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The system is an adversarial one: the governing party faces the opposition across a yawning divide and politicians bellow at each other.
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These are animals that freely piss on your belongings, torture and maim for fun, and bellow loudly through your house at 3am.
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Bellow is the only abiding literary presence able to reduce Amis, amid much shrewd and illuminating study of him, to fanboy gush.
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It's a wave called Pororoca, the great roar, and its low bellow can be heard up to an hour before it arrives.
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In 1987, Saul Bellow gave an interview about the controversial book The Closing of the American Mind by his friend Allan Bloom.
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But comparing himself to a celebrated novelist like Bellow was much less flattering than comparing himself to a forgotten poet like Schwartz.
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We first started digging the duo—comprised of 20163-somethings Josh Smith and Josh Freed—when we premiered "Smoke Bellow" in 2014.
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Load is the soundtrack to growing a soul patch, thanks to distorted blues riffs and the mid-coital bellow of James Hetfield.
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It later drew, among many others, Vladimir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, James Baldwin, John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates.
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He was already working on it in 1975 when Bellow published "Humboldt's Gift," his acclaimed roman à clef about him and Schwartz.
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Every year I run a seminar on the Great American Novella, which lets me talk about Bellow and Wharton with my students.
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This didn't stop the ultras, who continued to bellow instructions and songs into their microphones, inciting the whole terrace to give their all.
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Lei carried on bellow-singing for the duration; the next day, panicked authorities attempted to scrub video footage of the incident from websites.
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Government-focused surveillance companies can bellow about regulations, but there has been no flight from West because that's where the real money is.
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Yet the image of him in a constant rage belies a deeper complexity for a man who runs in bellow-and-banter cycles.
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You can feel gritty sediments of Irvine Welsh in the use of slang; Saul Bellow, in Gunaratne's fondness for directly addressing the reader.
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Bellow had so many targets to attack, whether insulting them face to face or in blistering letters or put-downs circulated through intermediaries.
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Writing in the Times, Michiko Kakutani praised Comey's eye for detail, referring to him as "what Saul Bellow called a "first-class noticer.
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" Vivian Gornick was more forceful: "If in Bellow misogyny was like seeping bile, in Roth it was lava pouring forth from a volcano.
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His own books on Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz were acclaimed, as was the series of biographies by other authors that he edited.
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This action will grant the island an additional $2,85033 million in 10 years to help 355,000 families actually living bellow the poverty level.
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" He writes to Saul Bellow (who had published a glowing review of "Invisible Man") after Bellow's divorce, "In truth, we're both in exile.
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"This is not a joke," his character is obliged to bellow near the end, and it almost makes you sad, because it is.
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Broadside Books was supposed to be a home for the kind of nuanced, intellectual conservatism that Bellow argued had disappeared from conservative publishing.
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THE high-pitched whirr of an electric car may not stir the soul like the bellow and growl of an internal combustion engine (ICE).
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Then pours into me, so generous, by saying them, some words I may wish to bellow: Bastard Turd Creep Idiot May we do Defining?
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When the seal opens his mouth wide to bellow, Boehme waves his hand in front of his face like he's just smelled something foul.
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Among the Scots, look out for James Douglas (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), the bellow of whose triumphal rage is at once thrilling and scarcely human.
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With a nod to the Conning Tower's literary tradition, Mr. Buckley included an item involving Saul Bellow and Dwight Macdonald in his first column.
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Keith Botsford, a globe-trotting, multilingual and multifaceted man of letters who became a longtime collaborator with Saul Bellow, died last year, on Aug.
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The surprise and treat of this book is how much Bellow stayed a master, sentence by sentence, every time he picked up a pen.
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"He's lucky he did not live to see the #MeToo movement," said James Atlas, who published the first major biography of Bellow in 2000.
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In 2005 he became only the third living writer (after Bellow and Eudora Welty) to have his books enshrined in the Library of America.
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There is less room for middle ground as Democrats demand stronger attacks on the president and Republicans bellow for grander defenses of his leadership.
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His eyes pop, his crocodile smile flashes, and his voice drifts between a half-hearted impression of Hoffa and his signature "WHOO AH" bellow.
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How he faces success — whether he's a man or a jerk, as Bellow himself put it late in life — is the book's chief concern.
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J.K. Rowling has sold a lot more books than Saul Bellow, and given the choice, most people would probably prefer to read Ms. Rowling.
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Bland singers bellow inspirational platitudes before the drop — as the crunchy instrumental megahook providing a song's climax and bliss point is called — drowns them out.
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The chipmaker also said it now expects $22.60 billion in revenue for fiscal 2019, well bellow the $24.31 billion seen by analysts polled by Refnitiv.
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His detractors bellow that he has violated the Constitution's emoluments clause, that his campaign took illegal contributions, that he is a puppet of Vladimir Putin.
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It's only a little reductive to say that Bellow spent the first half of his career describing himself and the second half describing his friends.
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The isolation of the White House, paired with the enveloping cloud of the Russia investigations, have caused Trump to brood and bellow with unpredictable results.
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" In the same note, he pointed out that "Bellow and Mailer have renewed themselves in this fashion again and again, as though buying new cars.
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Mr. Bellow has no intention of toning down the views of hard-liners he edits or retreating to a kind of "mushy centrism," he said.
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She said Mr. Ailes would angrily "boom and bellow" at her when he thought she was failing to inject conservative commentary into her news reports.
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" The journalist George Plimpton ranked them with the works of Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Jack Kerouac and Harry Matthews in the genre of "American picaresque.
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Not even the masters of the high/low rhetorical register go higher more panoramically or lower more exuberantly than Wallace — not Joyce, not Bellow, not Amis.
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While predecessors such as Saul Bellow and Bernard Malamud wrote of the Jews&apos painful adjustment from immigrant life, Roth&aposs characters represented the next generation.
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If a large brown and white object always bellows mournfully, the AI will assume that every brown and white object will bellow in a similar way.
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Next up for Baldwin and Kendall Jenner was the Bootsy Bellow party, where the friends hung out at their poolside VIP cabana at the sprawling estate.
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The good news is that this lets me post a video I shot myself, on my own phone: The Lone Bellow at Town Hall last night.
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He was a novelist, essayist, journalist, biographer, memoirist, teacher, translator and founder, with Bellow, of three literary magazines, most recently News From the Republic of Letters.
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In 1961 she met Bellow at a writers conference on Staten Island, and the letters her son found in a safe deposit box begin that year.
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The lineup includes the Lone Bellow, an Americana group from Nashville by way of Brooklyn, known for close-knit, three-part harmonies and emotionally invigorating performances.
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The best parts of "The Rub of Time" are devoted to his two favorite novelists, Vladimir Nabokov and Saul Bellow (whom he calls his "Twin Peaks").
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Mr. Roth was often lumped together with Bellow and Bernard Malamud as part of the "Hart, Schaffner & Marx of American letters," but he resisted the label.
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Trump can't bellow "deep state," not when he handpicked Bolton at a stage of his presidency when he'd already become sensitive to that supposedly pernicious force.
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You will encounter his ilk — losers, strivers, hucksters and dreamers — in the novels of Saul Bellow and the stories of Franz Kafka and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Nor can one commend an ensemble, almost all of whom bellow their lines as if somehow being young again conferred its own invitation to run riot.
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For Mr. Trump, who had only to bellow his build-a-wall cry to stir his supporters into a frenzy, the interview offered a distinctive opportunity.
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He'll bellow and dance and sweat and seemingly have so much fun that you'd be forgiven for thinking it's the last show he ever plans on playing.
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Thiel said that his political alienation after supporting Donald Trump was not a primary driver of his move, but he did continue to bellow against tech's liberalism.
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The essays in this collection that discuss the work of Bellow, Kafka, Trilling, Malamud, are all shrewd and engrossing and eminently capable of seducing the reader's agreement.
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In 2015, Morrison published "God Help the Child," a layered novella released she year before she received the Pen/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.
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While form-loving English novelists like McEwan and Julian Barnes celebrated the novel, Martin Amis—student of English Romanticism, worshipper of Joyce and Bellow—has been silent.
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" Saul Bellow, she said, "is talented and clever and writes with control and precision," but she dismissed " Dangling Man " as one of those "small novels of sterility.
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" Bellow found there was a "secret humiliation connected with the prize," he later said, because "some of the very great writers of the century didn't get it.
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She adopted a border collie / Australian shepherd mix from the SPCA and named her Stella after finding herself calling after the dog in a Brando-esque bellow.
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Murphy joined Jost and Che at the Weekend Update desk, mostly to bellow out his famous catchphrase, "I'm Gumby, damn it," and to roast the two anchors.
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The move to award a government contract to a politically connected public relations firm was "inappropriate and abusive," former EPA public affairs official Bonnie Bellow told BuzzFeed News.
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" In Mr. Sammler's Planet, published shortly after the flights of Apollo 10 and 11, Saul Bellow asked, "How long … will this earth remain the only home of Man?
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Several friends of the real estate mogul tell PEOPLE that his bellow and bluster is an act, put on by a salesman and reality-TV star for ratings.
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But in his voice, which mixes a Seth Rogen-style chuckle and a periodic bellow delivering punch lines, such points take on a laid-back West Coast charm.
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Mr. Roth was regarded with Saul Bellow, John Updike and one or two others as the titans of American literature of the second half of the 20th century.
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In 1987, Erwin Glikes, then publisher of the Free Press, hired Mr. Bellow as an editor and tasked him with finding the next generation of young conservative thinkers.
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Later, after cornering George Weidenfeld, one of the owners, in a bathroom, he won a transfer to the novel division, whose authors included Vladimir Nabokov and Saul Bellow.
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Then comes a key final test: On Friday, March 8, the capsule will bellow back through the Earth's atmosphere, deploy parachutes and land softly in the Atlantic Ocean.
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"Donald Trump has brought into politics a lot of people who were previously excluded, and the boundary of political speech has shifted to the right," Mr. Bellow said.
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"Lots of aircrafts that don't look economic at $55 per barrel to operate suddenly, at $35 per barrel, will look like great sense, including the A380s," Bellow said.
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"It was Saul Bellow, and he was pinned against the wall by a dreadful man from Winnipeg," Mr. Botsford recalled in an interview for this obituary in 2014.
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Rather than an angry bellow that might transport a listener to a lonely fjord among Viking warriors, it sounded more like a bugle played by someone with a lisp.
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My last two years were spent at the University of Minnesota, where professors like John Berryman, Saul Bellow, William Van O'Connor and Robert Penn Warren were astonishing me daily.
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I've read Dickens and Tolstoy but not Austen; most of Faulkner but little of Hemingway (and regretted what I did); all of Philip Roth, but none of Saul Bellow.
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As we chatted at an open-air table under the stars and a fat, bright moon, we were interrupted by the occasional buffalo bellow from somewhere in the darkness.
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"Conservative publishing is always a better business when the other side is in power," said Adam Bellow, the editorial director of a new political imprint at St. Martin's Press.
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Crude processing at the company's six domestic refineries stood at 905,000 bpd in the quarter, a level described as "relatively stable" despite being far bellow the plants' processing capacity.
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While the changing song he performed solo each night was an occasion for nuance and suspense, with the band behind him he worked up to a full-throated bellow.
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After the pendant is broken during an attack, the camera zooms tight on Cheng's face, and he lets out a deep bellow that would get shriller in later films.
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Singers as theoretically raucous as Miranda Lambert and Maren Morris try to stay in midtempo mode, while Chris Stapleton's bellow turns "I Want Love" into a fist-pumping weeper.
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From its embarrassingly bowdlerized title on, What the (Bleep) Just Happened is not written "to persuade a fair-minded opponent," as Bellow argued the best political writing should be.
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Male koalas can bellow at a pitch that is 20 times lower than expected for their size, thanks to a special set of vocal folds that other land mammals lack.
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He would not, he says, have published the piece had Updike still been alive, and he scolded his friend Christopher Hitchens for doing such a thing to the aging Bellow.
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He was in competition with the best in American fiction—with Melville, James, Wharton, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cather, Ellison, Bellow, Morrison—but he was funnier, more spontaneous, than any of them.
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In early novels like " The Victim ," Bellow had accepted what he called a "Flaubertian standard," a desire to make his novel "letter-perfect," but he soon found it too constricting.
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But the hateful bellow had unintentionally underscored why we had gathered, each of us wearing a symbol of the power of the word — a golden quill — pinned to our chest.
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Mr. Bellow wants to carve out territory in an increasingly fragmented marketplace, where publishers spend tens of millions of dollars in heated auctions for books by prominent politicians and pundits.
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The Lone Bellow is deeply steeped in considered nostalgia, and its two albums — the second one was produced by the National's Aaron Dessner — have been sturdy and a little winsome.
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It was a pre-production model, so a few things like the accordion-ish foldable bellow didn't close properly and the film sometimes didn't develop right, but all the fundamentals worked.
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The Vicarious Yelling Station offers a sort of reprieve from that emotion, encouraging viewers to imagine a surrogate stationed in the wilderness letting out an open-throated bellow in their stead.
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Shere Khan is its greatest technological triumph: he moves with such convincing physical weight that it is hard to believe he is not a real animal until you hear him bellow.
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Following the death of several friends, including novelist Saul Bellow in 2005, Roth wrote "Everyman," a short work of fiction about the physical decline and death of a successful advertising executive.
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And I would also say that the big midcentury greats that are popular especially among baby boomers — [John] Updike, and [Saul] Bellow, and [Philip] Roth — I've read very little in there.
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The stakes feel even higher over rest of the album's 11 tracks with Grote's once-raspy and slightly-twangy howl transformed to a less throaty but more dynamic and powerful bellow.
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There are elements of it that brought to mind writers as diverse as Ali Smith and Saul Bellow, Joy Williams and A. R. Ammons, but the cumulative effective is sui generis.
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It also seems tailored to the local community; much of the story takes place in the city — some of it even at the University of Chicago, where Bellow taught for decades.
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Listening to LOGIC â€" in particular, a track like "Wrist" where the bass pulses â€" I could really hear the low-end bellow through, even as Pusha T's spitting his lyrics.
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A crocodile lets out a muttering bellow when clicked, while a peacock has a soft "woo" and fans its tail, and a cheery "bling" voice rewards clicking on the sought-after object.
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Poirier's cast grows to include the American writers Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Saul Bellow, who among many others came to live and write in Paris in the late 1940s and 50s.
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The latter, Bellow ambivalently portrayed in his novels as the "potato love" of the family, the "humanity bath" of the streets, and the rough-edged, criminal temptations of the 20th-century city.
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The city where a 9-year-old Saul Bellow arrived in 1924 with his family from Canada will have a chance to see on stage how its most famous writer imagined it.
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He prefers tracks he can bellow: "Tell All the People," by the Doors, and "Send in the Clowns," as well as, in a higher register, "Touch of Grey," by the Grateful Dead.
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Like Saul Bellow or Cynthia Ozick, she is an American writer with a Russian soul, an artist of moral and intellectual fervor, driven by a desire to make windows into people's souls.
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Mr. Bellow, who read Mr. Yiannopoulos's proposal but did not bid on the book, said he was open to publishing other new voices from the so-called alt-right at St. Martin's.
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Oh sure, anyone can stuff a pillow under a cheap red velvet jacket, paste on a fake beard and bellow "Ho Ho Ho." Such people are amateurs unworthy of the title Father Christmas.
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We're premiering their new track "Nancy Drew" which you can get stuck into bellow, followed by a chat with band members Haley and Tor about important issues such as Tinder and man buns.
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He brings his scrutiny to bear on contemporary masters of fiction, such as Don DeLillo and Philip Roth, as well as the "twin peaks" of his literary education, Vladimir Nabokov and Saul Bellow.
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Mr. Beatty, 54, grew up in Southern California and was raised by his mother, a nurse and painter who exposed him and his two sisters to novels by Saul Bellow and Joseph Heller.
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Nixon did this in 1973, firing special prosecutor Archibald Cox and provoking a national bellow of outrage that I remember well, even though I was then a 14-year-old Oregon farm boy.
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Brockhampton's lyrics are intensely personal, but the band's members have always been drawn to production effects that obscure their voices, pitching them high, to an absurdist squeal, or low, to a gloomy bellow.
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" Bellow called the magazine, published twice a year, "a tabloid for literates," and said that he and Mr. Botsford were "a pair of utopian codgers who feel we have a duty to literature.
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The Jewish novelists of the midcentury — men like Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and J.D. Salinger — were stewards of a new Jewish American literary canon, replete with its own set of archetypes and tropes.
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What emerges from this sequence of events is a portrait of a publishing landscape in mid-transformation, one that is unwelcoming to the kind of scholarly, academic conservatism Bellow cut his teeth on.
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Chef Cam Boudreaux and his wife April Bellow opened the original location of this new-school sandwich shop in the spring of 2012, tucked into the back of an Irish pub called Erin Rose.
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The only track that comes close to matching "Three Lions" is "Vindaloo" by Fat Les, and that's primarily because it appeals to everyone's inner thirst to bellow nonsense at a deafening volume when drunk.
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It seems doubtful that writing came easily for Mr. Updike or Mr. Bellow, and it could well be that the smoldering and hard-edge style he sought was simply more difficult to come by.
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And in her portrait Saul Bellow, forever dissatisfied, coming and going between his wife and family on the Right Bank and his writer's studio and bachelor lifestyle on the Left, is just really annoying.
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" Nonetheless, Saul Bellow, in his novel "More Die of Heartbreak" (1987), placed Mr. Navrozov among the dissident writers Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Maximov and Andrei Sinyavsky as "commanding figures, men of genius, some of them.
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Bellow thinks of his conservatism, and the conservatism of the writers he publishes, as a system of thought that's more intellectually rigorous and grounded than the Fox News–style punditry that's currently in vogue.
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When asked for comment, Bellow told me that Broadside was actively acquiring and publishing up until he left in October 2016, and characterized Broadside's minimal web presence as the result of its tiny staff.
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But sophisticated sound design wasn't born until 1933, when Murray Spivack created the giant ape's bellow in "King Kong" by mixing a lion's roar with a tiger's roar, and playing it backwards at half-speed.
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The song's more electronic elements—like the inclusion of a drum machine and synths and an explosive and rhythmic verse in Rau's charmingly distinct nasal bellow—set the pace for a grander, more expansive sound.
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If you ignored every blast of hatred from Donald Trump, every attempt to defraud people or stiff those who worked for him, every bellow from the bully, consider his low view of humanity in general.
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Some critics have mistaken the book as continuing the tradition of Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud — whose names Namdar strategically drops, as red herrings — with Andrew just another Kepesh, Silk, Levin or Herzog.
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Saul Bellow dismissed his first two novels, "Dangling Man" (22014) and "The Victim" (21.4), as mere apprentice works, a kind of throat-clearing exercise in preparation for his masterpiece "The Adventures of Augie March" (1953).
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Those like Lionel Trilling, Susan Sontag and the older Saul Bellow recoiled in fastidious repugnance from its vulgar materialism and anti-intellectualism, turning back to Europe — or rather, upward, to European high culture — for refuge.
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Some of America's most influential writers have received them, including W.H. Auden, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Adrienne Rich, J.D. Salinger, Eudora Welty and William Carlos Williams.
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Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others — who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century.
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The book bristles with recollections of this time — when "the publication of a serious literary novel was an exuberant communal event" — and portraits of its leading figures, among them Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud and Lionel Trilling.
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The uncle hoots and hoots, he claps his forehead with his hand, in merriment, he throws back his head to bellow with laughter—And his head topples off and bounces on the floor and rolls away.
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It seems that if he wanted to realize any side character, too — one who wasn't working well as the transcription of one real person he knew — Bellow would try the character again, substituting a different acquaintance.
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Washington ____ Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others — who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century.
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Why did my next (and last) biographical subject, Saul Bellow, tear up his life to feed his fiction, marrying five times, tormenting himself and others, finding in his self-inflicted suffering the elixir of his art?
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A book like Crowley's, What the (Bleep) Just Happened, regardless of whether it was plagiarized (again: it almost definitely was), is not at the level of intellectual rigor for which Bellow has said he was aiming.
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What's different this time is that both houses of Congress are controlled by the same party as the president, and I fear that if Trump fired Mueller the result would be less a bellow than a squeak.
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Prine is performing at Fordham radio station and NPR affiliate WFUV's holiday benefit concert at the Beacon Theater; he's joined on the bill by Brooklyn folk trio The Lone Bellow and grungy doo-wop revivalist Shannon Shaw.
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As he walked toward the sideline, the club's coaching staff greeted him warmly, leaning in close to bellow a few words of encouragement, trying to make themselves heard above a noise so loud it buzzed and hummed.
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He further spread the gospel of biography as the founder of the Penguin Lives book series, a joint venture of Penguin and Lipper Books that he conceived around 21977 as he was struggling with his Bellow biography.
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"I could no more stop reading his biography than I could stop reading Saul Bellow after he blew the blinds off the windows in my head," John Leonard wrote in his review in The New York Times.
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So while Playboy was famous for its nude centerfolds, you really could read it for the articles: It featured writing by Vladimir Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, James Baldwin, John Updike, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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On Wednesday, during the Yankees game against the Toronto Blue Jays, it led Sterling to bellow "Ji-Man is a he-man" after the recently called-up Korean first baseman Ji-Man Choi homered in his Yankees debut.
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Joyce and Hemingway are in it, certainly, but he also mentions Philip Roth and Ian McEwan and Saul Bellow and Margaret Atwood —all of them, inevitably, influenced, if at a distance, by the sounds of the 1611 Bible.
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The school celebrated its connections to Milton Friedman, Saul Bellow and Frank Lloyd Wright much more than to Mike Nichols and Elaine May, who were part of the Compass, the first improv theater, founded by students in 1955.
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I love "Herzog" (1968), but I don't know that Saul Bellow ever went as passionately and profoundly into Jewish American themes as Roth did (in part because he was busy going so passionately into countless other things, too).
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Profile Size doesn't matter, but at 784 pages, "The Collected Stories of Diane Williams," new this month, outweighs the collected short fiction of Saul Bellow, Grace Paley, Gabriel García Márquez and almost any other writer one can name.
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Playboy, he noted, had influenced popular culture in Britain by promulgating the idea that men's magazines could show skin but also publish great writing, as it had by publishing writers like Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow and James Baldwin.
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Kvitova jumped out to a 3-0 advantage in the decider then let her emotions show for the first time in the fifth game, a bellow of celebration coming after a forehand winner put her 4-1 ahead.
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James Atlas, a leading figure in New York literary circles as an editor and publisher and as a writer whose books included well-regarded biographies of Saul Bellow and the poet Delmore Schwartz, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
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Video also captured the moment Bruce learned his son was dead: Moments after being seen praying in a room inside New Hartford Police headquarters, he emitted a pained bellow, clutching his head, as he was told Lucas didn't survive.
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" The New York Times eulogized Roth as "the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers—Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others—who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century.
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In his Nobel Prize lecture, in 1976, Bellow recalled that as a "contrary" undergraduate, at the University of Chicago, he enrolled in a class on Money and Banking and then spent his time reading the novels of Joseph Conrad.
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In part it's the complexity of the modern world and the rate of technological and social change: Quackery provides what Saul Bellow once called a "five-cent synthesis," boiling down the chaotic tangle of the age into simple nostrums.
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The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority also asked banks to limit new interest-only lending to 30 percent of total new residential mortgage lending and limit investor credit to well bellow a 10 percent annual growth cap, to prevent a property bubble.
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The singers on this compilation don't bellow like Dion; pseudointimacy is their goal, and they remain inanely tender even as the music, what with its booming drums and ringing plucked acoustic guitar, grandly sentimental Hollywood strings, builds to automatic inspirational climaxes.
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The worn wood and brass warmed by the heat of the studio lights, the whiffs of air from the accordion-like bellow on old glass plate devices, the abrasive scents of the darkroom, all combined into an odorous experience with photography.
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His time shattered the previous short course mark of 48.44 which he set at the 2014 world championships in Doha, and the 24-year-old let out a bellow of delight when his time was flashed up on the screen.
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One of the things I love about indie bands is how different their approaches are, ranging from practically orchestral (San Fermin) to interplay among equal players (Warpaint, Lone Bellow, Wild Reeds) to bands built around a stunningly talented star (Samantha Fish).
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Now that I'm older, I'm thinking about going back to Saul Bellow (I grew up in Hyde Park), because back when I started to read his books, I'd always just put them down in favor of something by Philip Roth.
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This in the end is what wins one over to Bellow, in Leader's portrayal, despite his tyrannies and impressive capacity for giving offense: how many individuals he held together (even when pushing them away), how much sociability he ruminated for art.
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By then Professor Wrong had gravitated to bohemian Greenwich Village, where, despite being an Anglo-Canadian Protestant, he fell in with the mostly Jewish group of New York Intellectuals, who included Saul Bellow, Anatole Broyard, Norman Mailer and Jackson Pollock.
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" Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer illuminated in their works the contradiction that, as James Baldwin put it, Americans were "afflicted by the world's highest standard of living and what is probably the world's most bewilderingly empty way of life.
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His characters crumple, bellow and gesticulate as if they've got a huge stage they need to fill; his blotchy, wriggling lines magically fall together into the contours of a worn-out suit or the light on a litter-speckled stairwell.
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Related: Kelly Clarkson hopes to leave 'positive footprints' with new talk show His bellow of Clarkson's name comes from a scene in the film where his character gets his chest waxed and screams the "American Idol" winner's name in pain.
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The report said at least 380 small plants bellow 10 megawatts have been built since 2009, driven mainly by the availability of public financial support in the form of feed-in tariffs, but their contribution to power generation was just 3.6%.
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That's what Bellow, and Philip Roth too, wrote so well about: how, despite the greatness, or the great idealism, of our pluralistic democracy, you can never truly shake the demands of blood, or the delusions of the demands of blood.
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That said, to stand up to forces of bigotry, to look these forces straight in the eye and say not a fucking inch, it's not enough just to bellow condemnation, and certainly not enough to keep talking mostly about white people.
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Bellow, in his turn, acquired other controversial books like Illiberal Education by the conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza (when he was starting out and still considered a mainstream conservative, rather than a racist felon) and David Brock's The Real Anita Hill.
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No longer a static voice and mere convenience for the player (as in so many elder games), the guy selling you a bow in the introduction might bellow for rescue later (and in a voice you recognize), when the villain razes the town.
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Men with enormous arms are propped up against the walls, their faces contorted in agony as their gym buddies bellow at them to keep pumping out more curls; that is, when they are not staring down their own reflections in the wall mirrors.
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I've done this with Saul Bellow and Laurie Colwin, Richard Yates and Jean Stafford, and — it seems related to 9-year-old me, finishing "Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself," then flipping back to the first page and starting it all over again.
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Even when he is considering writers he's assessed many times before (Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin, John Updike, Christopher Hitchens), his aim is so unerring that he resembles a figure out of Greek myth, firing arrows through ax-heads lined up in a row.
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But ten years later, when Auden proposed to write a book about Tolkien for the Christian publisher Eerdmans, as part of their "Contemporary Writers in Christian Perspective" series (subjects would include J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Saul Bellow, and C.S. Lewis), Tolkien flatly refused.
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He's windy or peremptory, he's both casually informed and passionately certain, and he generally slides easily into character as just the sort of self-superior wad who would otherwise get paid to bellow and declaim and exult about sports on the radio all day.
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Boudreaux and Bellow followed up that success by opening a second, standalone location on Dauphine Street last fall, where its Jolly Roger-ish emblem—complete with skull and cross-baguettes—fits right in just a few doors down from the seriously gruesome Museum of Death.
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Check out the companies making headlines after the bell Tuesday: Shares of Restoration Hardware dropped 1.8 percent after the bell, after the luxury home furnishings retailer reported earnings that met expectations but posted revenue that fell bellow Wall Street estimates according to Thomson Reuters.
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But if "Herzog" and "Stoner" appear, at this distance, to be the most potent and enduring postwar novels about the American intellectual male, Bellow certainly benefitted, at the time, from tipping the balance in favor of the poetic and demotic, the Romantic and expansive.
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The National Book Awards, which were established in 1950 and are presented by the National Book Foundation, have gone to some of the most revered writers in the United States, including William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Ralph Ellison, Susan Sontag and Flannery O'Connor.
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" Evergreen in its awfulness, too, is the 1963 cab ride in which Gay Talese explains to Saul Bellow, as Ms. Steinem sits between them, "You know how every year there's a pretty girl who comes to New York and pretends to be a writer?
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In a reflection of those times, Saul Bellow in "Herzog" (1964) impishly chose to make Valentine Gersbach, the lover of Herzog's wife, an apostle of Buber's teaching, urging Herzog to read "I and Thou" and related books in the midst of energetically cuckolding him.
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A flameworking table, used to bellow extra oxygen onto a lamp over which the glass was melted and formed, joins heavy tweezers and other glass tools in the display, all part of the museum's 1993 joint acquisition with Harvard of the Blaschkas' studio materials.
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In fact, the video's audio is muffled, so the only real thing you can hear is the bellow of one bro to another while they take in the sight of their buddy proudly riding the swimming moose with his arm up in the air John Bender style.
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Let's just hope that whenever the movie comes out, it ends with some kind of bloody, Quint-style death scene, wherein Wiseau summons every last ounce of his strength to bellow, "You are tearing me apart, Big Shark!" before he finally succumbs to its mighty jaws.
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Among the sage anglers who frequented the Gotham or fished there from afar were Saul Bellow, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore and the reclusive J.D. Salinger, who would show up at the store with his face concealed under a baseball cap and would immediately leave if recognized.
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He envied the "gush of prose" he attributed to two of his rivals, John Updike and Saul Bellow, but lamented his own writing process as a grueling "fight for my fluency" that dragged on sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph, until the novel reached the finish line.
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Bros who bellow and slap each other's backs when a Pokémon pops into view; pop-punk boyfriend–girlfriend duos giggling about their latest catch; businessmen in billowing dress shirts and backpacks, just like their avatars in Pokémon Go. At night, this isn't so—there are other hunters.
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Howland's writing — notably lauded by Saul Bellow — is rich with wry observations and humility, drawing from her experiences as a self-identified outsider: a divorcé and single mother whose family disapproved of her; a writer and artist fighting poverty, self-doubt, and mental illness in working-class Chicago.
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Ellis had a sterling clubhouse reputation in L.A., while Ruiz was both one of the last remaining links to Philadelphia's 2008 World Series victory and an inherently lovable type: squat, a good enough bat even in his late 30s, and pretty solid nickname to bellow at the ballpark.
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When he bogged down in the Bellow book, he co-founded and edited the Penguin Lives series, a venture that was inspired, in part, by his own battle fatigue, but also by his experience of a "divorce": a biography of Edmund Wilson that Atlas abandoned on grounds of incompatibility.
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In 216, Mr. Botsford and Bellow edited "Editors: The Best From Five Decades," a 1,000-page mosaic of stories, poems, articles and essays by writers as diverse as Victor Hugo, Martin Amis, S. J. Perelman and John Berryman, most of the material never before published in book form.
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Yet, as with her fellow Nobel laureates William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Saul Bellow, she magnified her experience and the history of her people through language and imagery that made it impossible for all but the most blinkered skeptics to see something of themselves in her books.
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Roth, who died Tuesday evening at 85, was the last front-rank survivor of a generation of fecund and authoritative and, yes, white and male novelists — the others included John Updike, Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow — who helped define American experience in the second half of the 20th century.
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And just south of the village border, in the town of Red Hook, an honor guard of vivid purple salvia lined up in front of Ham House, an 1854 Italianate Revival residence once owned by Saul Bellow that overlooks the 2501,212 protected acres of Tivoli Bays Wildlife Management Area.
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"Man From Nebraska," which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in drama but is only now receiving its New York premiere, belongs to a genre that would seem to have been wrung dry by 20th-century fiction writers, usually male, ranging from Sinclair Lewis to Saul Bellow.
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Some of the great books by Jewish authors like Philip Roth or Saul Bellow, they are steeped with this sense of being an outsider, longing to get in, not sure what you're giving up — what you're willing to give up and what you're not willing to give up.
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There's something American about it, really; many of the greatest, most American authors of the 20th century — writers like Grace Paley, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison — balanced seeing inside and being outside someone else's platonic America, preserving a distinct but now fading voice, connecting two times at once.
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This is the university that honored former Secretary of State Robert McNamara in 1979 for his "contributions to international understanding" despite protests and objections and was a temporary home of literary lion Saul Bellow, who often is quoted as posing the provocative question, 'Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?
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It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there —Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Flight to Arras (1942) He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself an accomplice to liars and forgers.
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Few in the commentariat would ever suggest Steve Kerr or Gregg Popovich are speaking out of turn whenever they weigh in on politics, and no red-faced executives bellow that they'll never work another day in the league if they calls the treatment of blacks in America our national sin.
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Rebelling against a literary tradition that perhaps underestimated how much space animal urges take up in the male brain, many big hitters of the 20th century, like Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Miller, Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow, dived into the muck with the zeal of Rabelais or Cleland.
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"I did not long ago spy on the shelf of an airport bookshop in Oslo a copy of the Modern Library edition of my 'Bellow,' " he noted, alongside "Losing It — and Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time," by Valerie Bertinelli, and a collection of Alan Bennett's essays.
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I had just come from an interview with Saul Bellow, whose biography I had been writing for the past five years, and on that day he had described the biographer as the shadow in the garden, being the foreboding presence that darkens the subject's life whether he wants him to or not.
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At the time of the interview, he was the author of a celebrated biography of Delmore Schwartz, and he would go on to write a notorious biography of Bellow, as well as to preside over the Penguin Lives biography series as founding editor, exercising an unparalleled influence upon the recent course of American literary biography.
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Early on, there was the Houston Astros assistant general manager, Brandon Taubman, who chose the occasion of the Astros' pennant-winning victory over the Yankees to pull a cigar out of his mouth and bellow foul idiocies at three female reporters about the charms of the team's closer, Roberto Osuna, who had beaten his girlfriend about in Canada.
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But few sights have told the tale as neatly as this: Ms. Quinn, long the town's ranking socialite, in conversation with the nation's most famous adult film performer — filling a space where recently scheduled forums included a Jonathan Franzen appearance and a meditation on Saul Bellow — to dissect a tome that lingers on graphic descriptions of President Trump's genitals.
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Cutting back and forth in time, while draping every manner of philosophical digression upon the armature of his characters' lives, Mr. Bellow conjured both the busy mental life of his heroes — men who live, quite willfully, in their heads — and their daily, creaturely existence, their hectic encounters with tempestuous women, fast-talking pitchmen, professional jokesters, bumblers, bureaucrats and poseurs.
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Some ladies step out from separate bus For them to change behind: scrim Which our Supervisors term: unfortunate scrim While doing mad winking Ladies go in green and come out in clothes of various One cannot get shoe on and smiling at self shakes head, tosses shoe Takes off other shoe, tosses As if to say, Oh heck , who needs shoes to bellow ?
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He may, like most writers, aspire to aphorism ("envy being best understood as empathy gone wrong"), but, by the nature of its brevity, aphorism is evidence-free, and what Amis enjoys most—outside those priestly moments of Bellow recitation—is offering the proof of things: opening up the patient, putting the organs on the table, and taking a poke at the evidence.
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Two years ago Jacob Howland, a philosophy professor at the University of Tulsa, wrote an article for Commentary describing a chain of events that led not only to a reassessment of his mother's writing, but also to the emergence of a decades-long correspondence Ms. Howland had with Saul Bellow, who he said was a longtime friend and, for a time, a lover.
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But if you're the sort who delights in the account of the midcentury artistic life—living on pennies in postwar Paris, selling a short story for enough money to buy a car, palling around with Norman Mailer (perhaps sleeping with him) and Saul Bellow (almost definitely sleeping with him) and Irving Howe (possibly being raped by him)—Portrait of a Writer does deliver.
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Still, it's quickly becoming clear that the MAGA hat threatens to become the white, pointy hood of our generation, and the beastly bellow "build the wall!" is slowly beginning to replace "white power!" as the preferred phrase of the bigoted and hateful, and they're obviously passing on the putrid ideologies to their children and paying PR firms to spin situations caught on camera.
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Editors' Choice Biographies take center stage in this week's recommended titles — whether the traditional, magisterial kind that walks readers through the life of a celebrated figure (John Marshall, Saul Bellow) or the more intimate kind that shines attention on a person who might otherwise be overlooked (Scholastique Mukasonga's mother, Stefania, in "The Barefoot Woman," or Stephen L. Carter's grandmother Eunice Carter, in "Invisible").
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Sure, other writers had tried this transubstantiation trick before—notably Bellow, whom Roth idolized, and that other Roth, Henry—but only Philip Roth attempted it so explicitly, and yet, paradoxically, so casually, in book after book after book (almost 30 novels in all), as if by sheer effort he could drag not just the Old World into the New World, but the New World into the Global.
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He describes how the reception of his biography of Bellow caused him to worry obsessively about whether he had been unfair or malicious: One day I sat down with yellow Post-its and went through my book page by page, marking the places where I felt I had gotten it wrong — not in fact but in tone, a thing much harder to get right.
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A slow, tender, florid love ballad, it nudges a singer toward all sorts of overstatement and mannerism (although Mathis's original is magical), and boy does Bowie succumb to temptation — he lets his voicebox bleed all over the microphone, inserting all sorts of unnecessary quavers and whispers and melismata, and when the music drops out so he can bellow "Don't you know you're life… itself!!" he almost faints from the melodrama.
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The block's evolution unfolds through its diverse residents, who included the Fabers (owners of a factory in Brooklyn that made No. 2 pencils); the Davises (whose red-and-yellow baking powder cans remain a kitchen staple and who were scandalized when a widowed heiress married her chauffeur); relatives of the Goodyear Tire family; Marion Davies, the film actress and paramour of William Randolph Hearst; Duke Ellington; and Saul Bellow.
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But J.F.K., Jacqueline Kennedy, Aristotle Onassis, Richard Nixon and Ngo Dinh Diem are joined in this story by — among others — Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Dr. Benjamin Spock and his wife, Jane, George Plimpton, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, the literary critic Leslie Fiedler, J. D. Salinger, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Willem de Kooning, Elizabeth Taylor, Raymond Chandler, Sylvia Plath, Jack Kerouac, Frank Sinatra and Maria Callas.
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" He points out, for instance, that the fiction of Junot Díaz and Jhumpa Lahiri speaks "to a very particular contemporary immigration experience," but at the same time tell stories about "longing for this better place but also feeling displaced" — a theme central to much of American literature, and not unlike books by Philip Roth and Saul Bellow that are "steeped with this sense of being an outsider, longing to get in, not sure what you're giving up.
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The city has been the home of a great cast of legendary figures: Saul Bellow, Mike Royko, Jack Brickhouse, Carl Sandburg, Mayor Harold Washington (D), Steve Allen, City Treasurer Morris B. Sachs (D), Dick Gregory, Richard Wright, Mayor Jane Byrne (D), Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, Nelson Algren, Saul Alinsky, Cook County Democratic Chairman Jake Arvey, Ed Asner, Alderman Paddy Bauler (D), Stuart Brent, Gwendolyn Brooks, David Burnham, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, Alderman Leon Despres (D), Hugh Hefner, the Rev.
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In late work by Muriel Spark, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, William Golding, and now Edna O'Brien, you can detect a certain impatience with formal or generic proprieties; a wild, dark humor; a fearlessness in assertion and argument; a tonic haste in storytelling, so that the usual ground-clearing and pacing and evidentiary process gets accelerated or discarded altogether, as if it were (as it so often can be) mere narrative palaver that is stopping us from talking about what really matters.
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PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction Toni Morrison PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction Lisa Ko for The Leavers (Forthcoming from Algonquin Books) PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Awards Master American Dramatist winner: Lynn NottageAmerican Playwright in Mid-Career winner: Young Jean LeeEmerging American Playwright winner: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph by Scott Ellsworth PEN/ESPN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literary Sports Writing John Schulian PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship Ash Parsons for A Chemical Distance PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Ed Roberson PEN Translation Prize The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector, translated from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson PEN Award for Poetry in Translation The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa, translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu PEN/Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature Nathalia María Echauri Castagnino for Doce Lunas Llenas: Poesias sobre la Divina Energia Femenina
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