Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the biggest shame is the waste of all those exquisite bodies. Kleiser plays games; filling the screen with unclad gods and goddesses but rarely letting you look for too long or too closely There's so much of it, that the nudity loses all sense of eroticism. The actual sex cryptically hinted at among the protagonists has no impact and elicits no interest...
...distract the audience, but to jog the attention span every couple of paragraphs. And despite the length of his speeches, the ongoing struggle that structures the lines--the attempt to find true emotions among his fiends posturings--creates a clearly defined character, allowing Cantor to mold an actual stage presence...
...author also mixes the actual with the fantastic when he concocts a cabal called "Penelope." Its conspirators are a strange admixture of the notorious and celebrated, including Perfumer François Côty, Sir Alan Paisley, Field Marshal Von Ribbentrop, third in the Nazi hierarchy, and Hugh Selwyn himself. Mauberley's assignment: to persuade Wallis to prop up the Duke as a figurehead who will "rule" a United Europe controlled by fascists from England and Germany. Ribbentrop dangles a glittering prize before the duchess: "Your Royal Highness perhaps does not understand that there are crowns that have never...
...motives, the balanced-budget amendment must now be taken seriously. It provides that Congress each year adopt a budget plan under which total spending does not exceed total receipts. Once that is done, "Congress shall not pass and the President shall not sign any bill" that would push actual spending above the estimated totals. As a further prod to keep spending down, taxes could not increase as a proportion of national income unless Congress specifically voted to let this happen (on the other hand, a deficit could legally occur if tax collections fell below expectations). There are two other loopholes...
...Cantor's interpretation of Ibsen's two-act drama emphasizes the playwright's humor, lightening up a script that tends toward the didactic. The Pillars of Society concerns one seemingly model family whose patriarch must admit to his actual deceit when the family's "black sheep" return home to clear their own names. The title refers to this false moral leader. Karsten Bernick, and his business cohorts, who pursue personal profits under the banner of working for the common good. They are supported by their equally hypocritical wives, members of an aid society for fallen women who are more dedicated...