Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Malachy still expresses grief and self-pity at this wife's eventual escape from him, taking their two small children with her. He makes no connection between his own alcohol-fueled irresponsibilities and those of his father, whom he blames bitterly for abandoning his mother and siblings. If he has...
Acting, which she has done since age 8, was her escape route. "You know how little kids always want to have a job, to be their fathers with the briefcases? Well, this job gave me a purpose." Now, she confesses, she's no longer always angry--"although I am kind...
A first reading of Ulysses can thus be a baffling experience, although no book more generously rewards patience and fortitude. Stephen Dedalus reappears, still stuck in Dublin, dreaming of escape. Then we meet Leopold Bloom, or rather we meet his thoughts as he prepares breakfast for his wife Molly. (We...
How bogus, how beguiling, that in the midst of the Depression, Hollywood erected Art Deco penthouses for swells with nothing better to do than dance the night away. Did audiences rebel at this fantasy vision? No, they wanted escape--escape into elegance. Nearly everyone opted for that patina. Gangsters and...
That was soon all too clear. Pop culture, once the domain of allusion--the cunning metaphor, the fade-out after that first kiss--now needed to spell and shout it out, as culture exploited every renegade adolescent impulse. The escape into elegance was replaced by the fun house of sensuality...