Word: belovedness
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Stevens is the narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1988 novel, The Remains of the Day, a drama so delicate that it touches the reader deeply without applying the pressure of sentiment. The story runs on parallel tracks: the years before World War II, when Stevens worked for his beloved Lord...
The idea is headline simple: if genetic testing allowed parents to know that their child in the womb would probably grow up gay, would they abort the fetus and try again for a straight one? To make the decision tougher, Tolins gives the prospective mother (Jennifer Grey) a beloved brother...
.What about the Houston Oilers? An offensive lineman chooses to spend time with his wife who just gave birth (and had previously had a miscarriage) instead of flying to New England to play our beloved Patriots.
The film takes us through the defining early moments of Ivan's reign: his marriage to the beloved Anastasia, immortalized as the paragon of duty and honor; the conflicts and intrigues among the boyars, who are fearful of the new tsar's control; Ivan's relationship with his friend Kurbsky...
In practice -- and this is the great lesson that her fiction has to teach -- Morrison does just the reverse. White authors are seldom praised for "transcending" the whiteness of their characters, and Morrison has demanded, through the undeniable power of her works, to be judged by the same standards. She...