Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...setting Victorian England. Three Fallen Angels concerns a man, his wife and his best friend, a young co-worker. The friend falls for the wife. "I got to kiss you. I got to know how it feels," he says. Completely inarticulate, encased within themselves, the "angels" can only express their feelings physically: erotic dancing, lovemaking, or (how many times have you seen this?) a just-for-fun sparring match between the two men that grows increasingly vicious. For philosophy, one character ruminates: "Sometimes it's nice being alone. Then it can get...lonely." For the agony of illicit love: "Miriam...
...declaratory nuclear doctrine is intended as an auxiliary to military deterrence. The words are supposed to express the political will to use the weapons if necessary, and thus dissuade the other side from ever making their use necessary. With precisely that goal in mind, a succession of American Administrations, going back to the '50s, has asserted that in extremis, the U.S. would be prepared to fight a nuclear war with the Soviet Union; moreover, the U.S. has reserved the right to detonate the first mushroom cloud if that is what it takes to halt Soviet aggression...
Those seeking the rigors of a military education express relief at being able to "forget about girls and the outside world," as Harry Bitzberger, president of the V.M.I, graduating class puts...
...money (up to $750 for scalpers' tickets) was on the tenor. Of course, the man who was singing Verdi's Egyptian captain for the first time in his career was no ordinary performer: it was the portly mink-coat model, frequent guest on the Tonight show, American Express-card pitchman, would-be movie star and, these days, part-time primissimo tenore. Yes, Giorgio, there is still a Luciano Pavarotti, superstar...
...country would identify them as medium-priced whores." Children's clothing conveys different kinds of signals, Lurie believes. Working-class children don suits and fancy dresses for a weekend outing. The middle-class kids are the ones in jeans, sneakers and T shirts. The blue-collar children express upward aspirations by their miniature adult costumes; the white-collar children, notes Lurie, "are not expected to do more than equal their parents' status, and at the moment they are on probation...