Word: detachedness
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As things are, Susan gives Madonna an audience she can't reach with MTV or disco. When she sings she lacks the all-there quality of a great pop singer like Linda Ronstadt or Tina Turner. She disguises this with vocal intensity and good dance moves. The kids are so...
Nonetheless, the jokes keep on coming. Titters resound even in what are meant to be grim moments: the exposure and imprisonment of one of Eugene's barracks mates as a homosexual; a nervy confrontation between a drunk drill sergeant wielding a loaded pistol and a raw recruit whom the officer...
It may be useful on such occasions to pick up John Reed's enthusiastic description of Lenin in Ten Days That Shook the World: "Loved and revered as perhaps few leaders in history have been . . . a leader purely by virtue of intellect; colorless, humorless, uncompromising and detached, without picturesque idiosyncrasies...
But if critics said one thing, the collectors said another, and this time the collectors were right. Caravaggio found influential patrons almost as soon as he arrived in Rome in 1592-93; they included Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who owned eight of his paintings, and Vincenzo Giustiniani, who had...
During John Fox's tenure, the deanship has become primarily a crisis-management position. When Mather House students complained about their crowded rooms, Fox was there. When North House students wanted to complain about the renovation plan. Fox was there. As for anticipating problems or soothing feathers before they've...