Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the book improves on the original article. Given the extra space, the authors are able to flesh out their major contribution to the corpus of Vietnam accounts--a critical and usually overlooked sense of moral ambiguity about the war effort. It is no easy task to avoid automatically sermonizing about Vietnam's rights and wrongs, especially in an era where so much political discussion tends toward excessive moralizing--just consider the nuclear debate. But Goldman and Fuller eschew an easy judgment either way, whether it be outrage or the wrong-headed "noble cause" nostalgia that a sympathetic warrior...
Smaller parcels arrive in dozens of ways: in the holds of small boats, in the bags of merchant seamen, taped to tourists' flesh, dissolved and then impregnated in clothing or, as New York customs agents discovered early last year, secreted behind a framed reproduction of Da Vinci's Last Supper...
...language but because of the enduring quality of the character's conflicts and motives. It is these conflicts and motives that Tourner caricatures in this play written during Shakespeare's heyday. The frivolity of court life, the superficiality of the nobility, and their preoccupation with pleasures of the flesh draw the playwright's satire. But unlike with Shakespeare's plays, a modern-day director is hard-pressed to give the vengeance play's intentionally superficial characters any meaning for a modern-day audience. The result, under the direction of Andrew Atkinson, is an exaggerated performance by pasteboard characters...
...brightly optimistic enthusiasm inspired by the movie has been considerably dimmed, it's only fair that other Gandhi-lovers (the movie Gandhi, that is) should share the path. If you want fairy-tale heroes, try Star Wars or something. Mahatma Gandhi turns out to have been made of flesh and blood after...
Williams was also a moral symbolist. His earthy characters journey over a landscape that pulses with the strife-torn dualities of human nature. The duel is between God and the Devil, love and death, the flesh and the spirit, innocence and corruption, light and darkness, the eternal Cain and the eternal Abel. In the American tradition, this links Williams to three 19th century moral symbolists: Hawthorne, Poe and Melville...