Word: dishonorables
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...pride and unity. The reality has often been less inspiring -- in Hitler's Berlin in 1936, in the Munich beset by Palestinian terrorists in 1972, in the tit-for-tat cold war boycotts of 1980 and 1984, not to mention the myriad smaller moments when political bitterness or personal dishonor or random fate blemished the panorama of joyful striving. But whatever the misdeeds and mischances, the myth continually reasserts itself and endures. So it is always a surprise when the Olympics fall short of what the world imagines, a respite from the ordeals of daily headlines and household heartbreak...
...culture of profound intolerance for violence against women, an almost (no condescension intended) knightly solicitude for the sake of women's safety (we know, we know, they can take care of themselves) and men's honor. Every rape and every battering of women is, among other things, a dishonor to men, and men should see it as such...
What may have most roused the normally comatose Met audience was the production's feminist subtext. This Lucia is less a helpless damsel in distress than a strong, sexual woman who chooses death before dishonor -- Elektra's first cousin. Although she had some vocal difficulties on opening night (Donizetti's high notes are best not delivered while the soprano is on her knees or flat on her back), reigning bel canto diva June Anderson's forceful stage presence ensures that the heroine gives as good as she gets. Other notables include a promising American tenor, Richard Leech, as Lucia...
...Macintosh screens. Smoke enough crack to make Marion Barry's drug habit look like a day at the beach. Have sex, lots of sex, in many different places, in many different positions--and preferably with many different people of many different genders and species. Steal. Covet. Lust. commit adultery. dishonor your father and mother (the best method is to tell them about all the guilt they made you feel as a child). And, if necessary, kill-roommates, advisors, cheerful juniors, people who finished their theses a month early are all legitimate targets. Sin is everything you'd hope it would...
Wrong. The next morning, Franck's constructioncrew melts the snow off the tulips with a blowdryer. The swans are given lukewarm baths and aredeclared ready to go. Sure, a beautiful weddingrequires love, but it requires swans, too. Thismakes sense in a Franckophilic world where theultimate badge of dishonor is a blue tuxedo, where"a commitment to traditional family values" costsnearly $150,000, where the ultimate moral maladyis an inability to "let go." Poor people can'trelate to these values? Well, let them...