Word: escapist
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...specials, with the possibility of a regular show, but the Sixth Avenue hot-shots ran nervously for their Di-Gel every time she appeared on the screen. Tomlin, went the word, was not safe-something Lily could have told them at the start. Says she: "Commercial television specializes in escapist fantasy. I deal with culture reality." Adds Jane Wagner, who co-produced two of the TV specials: "The network bosses think Lily is a genius, but they are also scared to death...
Benchley doles out this tale in the standard measures of escapist fiction: ever escalating shocks at predictable intervals. Early on, the effect can be ludicrous: Will David get stuck in an elevator? Will his wife accidentally drink a glass of hydrochloric acid? What is the meaning of her mysterious nosebleed? Later the blood flows everywhere and the sea is awash with gore: "The moray struck, needle teeth fastening on the man's neck, throat convulsing as it pulled back toward the hole. Blood billowed out of the sides of the moray's mouth." That moray eel, which figures...
...some, incoherence), since "dogmatism and 'correct line' politics are usually the sign of weakness in a political movement." In keeping with this pluralistic approach, the Sourcebook has kind words for groups ranging from the reformist NOW, which seeks the best possible deal for women within the system, to the escapist Minerva Astrology Collective. The overwhelming emphasis, however, is clearly on women within a sexist society fashioning their own separate institutions embodying the feminist principles of egalitarianism and collectivism...
...every home town that seems like the end of the world to its moping teen-age inhabitants, Reg Dwight, 28, and ever so much better known as Elton John, has become the repository of a million escapist dreams. He is the symbol of the often battered, never completely shattered juvenile faith that no one is too short, too fat, too awkward or parentally despised to be transformed into someone who is not only famous and rich, but-infinitely more important-loved by the multitudes...
...bishop orders him to spend a month in the desert, atoning. But this being truly the latter age, ascetism is not what it once was, and Marshfield gets to expiate his sins in fairly comfortable surroundings--a motel, actually. He is forbidden serious "intrapersonal or doctrinal" conversation, non-escapist reading material, and the Word of God as set down in Holy Scriptures (Marshfield doesn't miss the irony of his situation--who ever heard of a motel without Bibles?) His nights are to be devoted to poker, his days to golf. (You have to imagine that his motel is situated...