Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The script is almost clinically clear about why the Marquise de Merteuil (Annette Bening) and the Vicomte de Valmont (Colin Firth) embark on a campaign to debauch a 15-year-old virgin, Cecile de Volanges (Fairuza Balk). The older woman is gripped by temporary insanity because she loves the man...
Few events could generate such awe, such emotion, such sheer wonder on so many personal levels.
Two gay male buddies, poised at the uneasy boundary between youth and middle age, sprawl in an overdecorated apartment and dish the dirt about opera singers. None can meet their fierce standards except Maria Callas (a performance by whom provides the play's title). They admire her for blending technique...
Paul Ferguson, a political science major at Minnesota and an avid Golden Gopher fan, describes the emotion he felt as the puck trickled past the Minnesota goaltender as "utter disbelief."
The problem, Machell explains, lies in how much energy and emotion scholars invest in their work. It becomes no longer simply a job, but an identity, a product they own. Further, professors, like high school teachers, are on their own in the workplace, defining and grading their own success.