Word: flaws
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Steinem also focuses on Monroe's biggest flaw and her ultimate downfall: her desperate need for love. Born illegitimate to an emotionally unstable mother who was to die in a mental institute, and later shuttled from foster homes to an arranged teenage marriage, Norma Jeane was to spend the rest of her life in search of the paternal love she never got. Steinem points a critical feminist finger at the Freudian psychoanalysts who could not help Monroe solve her problems because of the inherent sexism of Freud's theories. As a last resort, they prescribed pills, a move which proved...
...Little Shop out of an inestimable number of dramatic, social, cinematic and musical commonplaces. Superficially, it followed the plot of the Corman picture, but it also obeyed dramatic rules enforced through the millenia: the Ashman/Menken Little Shop was a carefully structured Greek tragedy, replete with chorus, hero, dilemma, tragic flaw, catastrophic misstep and ultimate retribution. Snappy Chiffons-type songs and bouffant hairdos notwithstanding, the resolution of Little Shop was closer to that of Agamemnon than Animal House...
...ideal, of course, is Madame Bovary, a novel whose only flaw may be that its perfection chills the sympathies traditionally required for a cozy read. Emma's large appetites and rebelliousness may be less scandalous today, but they are no less frightening than they were to the l9th century French bourgeoisie...
...FACT, Pirates exhibits a quality rarely found on the Harvard stage: the lack of a visible weak link in the cast. If there is a flaw, it is that the cast as a whole lacks proper volume to be heard clearly over the orchestra. This is an important point, given the complexity of the lyrics; it is frustrating to have to strain to pick up on the words...
Pursuing such a course is not, as some might claim, a self-destructive obsession that represents an inherent flaw in a democracy. The strength of the nation, not its weakness, comes from the fact that it has a government of laws, run by officials who can be held accountable. This moral principle, more than even its arsenal of nuclear missiles, accounts for the fundamental strength the U.S. exerts in its dealings with people around the world. That is why any operation -- whether it be the covert shipment of arms to Iran or the secret diversion of funds to the contras...