Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Egan's performance took all of these troubling factors into account; his Coriolanus was neither purely good nor purely evil, so that the play became a tragedy about a flesh-and-blood human being rather than a superficial historical figure...
...this dark, Darwinian view of nature has its saving grace. True, it doesn't let us imagine some idyllic time when nature was benign and the human heart pristine--a time when, as Augustine believed, human flesh had not yet been corrupted by raw desire and self-absorption. On the contrary, our distant evolutionary past was a time when desire was even rawer than now, and self-absorption less nuanced...
...Saturday morning cartoon antics combined with the smug humor of Saturday Night Live. Though the action is struck in a loud key, the actors aren't obscured or overwhelmed. As Jackie, Lane Burgess is convincing and endearing. She succeeds at the difficult task of humanizing Jackie the icon, adding flesh and blood to the mysterious outline produced by pop culture. Roberta Kastelic is also memorable as Christina (Coke can-in-hand) Onasiss. Her character introduces a dark touch to the second half of the play as she terrorizes the stage with her curses accusations...
...days passed last year, it was as if some creeping, flesh-eating virus had got hold of the newspaper industry. Nearly every month brought fresh evidence of decay, proof that a major contraction, driven by skyrocketing costs for newsprint, was occurring among papers large and small, famous and obscure. In January the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel announced a merger, destroying about 500 jobs--and creating yet another one-newspaper town. In March the Fort Worth Star-Telegram abandoned its all-day edition. In April the Houston Post walked off the field, leaving its rival, the Chronicle, with...
...film, Tucci asked Scott to co-direct (the two have known each other since high school in suburban New York-- "He was a jock; I was a druggie," says Scott). According to Tucci, the film was truly a collaborative effort. According to Scott, he was just helping flesh out his friend's vision: "We'd often look at each other on the set--4 a.m., 100 [degrees]--and say, 'How do people do this alone...