Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were stimulants to heroic-romantic imaginings. Self-transcendence, if you will. The movies were especially potent in the way they worked on the deprived sensibilities of provincial youngsters. Sneaking out from under parental disapproval, sheltering in the dark under the big, glowing screen, innocently absorbing its fantastic representations of faraway realities, surrendering to the belief that those realities must be true (unendurable to think that the whole world was as constricted as one little corner of Sicily was), Toto comes close to becoming a generational archetype, transcending the particulars of his own situation...
...morally ill because we are used to saying one thing and thinking another . . . The concepts of love, friendship, mercy, humility and forgiveness have lost their depths and dimension, and for many of us they represent only some sort of psychological curiosity, or they appear as long-lost wanderers from faraway times, somewhat ludicrous in the era of computers and spaceships...