Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abel brings in sexual detail when it is necessary, amusing, or relevant in discussing Genet. It often, but the sensation one has even during the most graphic descriptions of homosexuality is that Abel is involved in clean, thoughtful, important discussion. Mailer's subject (despite one very graphic seduction in Miss McCarthy's book) is intrinsically far less sexual than Abel's study of Genet. Mailer manages somehow to be at once less interesting and dirtier...
...agrarian reform, got $11.6 million in Alliance for Progress aid and used it to launch a modest development plan to educate his 1,950,000 people, build roads and attract new industry. Personally popular and staunchly antiCommunist, he kept Honduran far leftists at arm's length, helped labor clean out Red infiltrators. "I am asking you," he once told a labor rally, "to choose between Communism and democracy, between the blue and white flag of Honduras and the red flag of Russia...
...different nature: what to do about an aged nun who, by reputation at least, has been flitting about the countryside working miracles. Known simply as "the Saint," she first appeared, according to rumor, on a mountain-top and began turning water from a dirty stream into miraculously clean holy water. A father reported that she cured his daughter's acne; two little boys who were mutes were taken to her, have since started uttering sounds. As word of her feats spread, Buddhist faithful by the thousands began jamming the narrow, rain-soaked paths leading to the mountaintop. Taking...
...Mouse on the Moon is a very comforting movie, especially if you are worried about the World Situation. There they are: clean-shaven Americans, rumpled Russians and quaintly inefficient Englishmen, and the preposterous Duchy of Grand Fenwick which foils them all and finally saves the world...
...from the book. In Golding's novel, the scene is more complex: Jack sobs, Golding philosophizes. The film version contains a stunning shot of Ralph, having run from his pursuers, stumbling onto a British officer. The camera shows him slowly looking up the officer's high legs to his clean white socks and finally to his clean, white, British cap. Tears run from Ralph's wise eyes while the not-so-wise eyes of a neatly-dressed sailor stare uncomprehendingly...