Word: disturbingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quartett aims to disturb. Heiner Muller's play, a loose re-interpretation of the novel Les Liasons Dangereuses, toys with notions of gender and desire in a series of icily barbed dialogues. Running approximately an hour in itself, the play is carefully prefaced by a series of Muller fragments, apparently intended to augment the spectacle of soulless debauchery. Unfortunately, these fog-embellished effects are symptomatic of a trendily shallow sensibility which comes uncomfortably close to tipping tight drama over into dull farce. As we were informed that the action took place in a post-World War Three bomb shelter...
...Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity." How well did William Sessions' all-powerful predecessor, J. Edgar Hoover, uphold these words? Not very, according to a just published biography of the late FBI chief. Anthony Summers' Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover is sure to disturb the old crime fighter's final rest...
...ignorant perceptions about homosexuals that are so commonly heard now. Rather, they are rooted in human nature: an openly gay man serving among other men in cramped quarters for will be a disruptive force. Similarly, a few women living and working amongst a mostly male unit would likely disturb unit relations...
...danger of relying too heavily on the card key information, but again, it's a tradeoff for increased security," Cho says. "I don't want to seem like it doesn't disturb me at all because in an abstract sense, it does seem quite Big Brotherish. But in a practical sense, it's just another measure that's taken to protect...
...pointy heads. Today, after all, the basic values of society are changing or being debated -- attitudes toward monogamy, women's roles, abortion, gay rights, censorship. These topics are bound to be tested largely in the freewheeling atmosphere of the academy and the arts, and changes there are bound to disturb traditionalists. But when traditionalists respond as they have on abortion, with obstruction and assertion rather than argument, they should expect to lose in the arena of debate, whatever the merits of their cause...