Word: flexed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delightfully eccentric medium Madam Arcati (Mara Clark) to perform a seance in his home. Through some mysterious circumstances, his first wife Elvira (Dee Nelson) appears--and refuses to leave. One disaster after another ensues as Elvira and Ruth fight it out for their husband--fertile ground for Coward to flex his comic muscle...
...very telling of the objectivist cult-following that it should regard the poor and the unsuccessful (who are the brunt of their joke) as failures. In objectivists' eyes, the poor fail willingly because all people have and have enjoyed equal opportunity, have entered this world with equal freedoms to flex equal minds. They believe that every wealthy and successful individual is so because of his or her "productivity," that the uncreative and less intelligent and less talented should suffer for their fruitlessness, and ultimately, that our civil society should feel no obligation to them...
...acts. As the featured artists parade the genius of their bodies in stunts of strength and grace, Cirque's menagerie (Edvard Munch's silent screamer, Clive Barker's Pinhead and dozens of other glamorous mutants) capers around them like bit players in an amiable madman's reverie. Ballerina-contortionists flex gaily; Pierrots bodysurf across the stage on skateboards; the man with the newspaper floats in midair. Dragone exhausts the laws of geometry, while the performers bend the laws of physics...
Whether the latest round of confrontation is really over depends on the whims of Iraq's unfathomable ruler. "If he continues to flex his muscles," says Pollard, "we have to deploy our forces to keep the peace and protect U.S. interests." But with most American officials increasingly confident that the U.S. has squelched Iraq's military adventuring for the moment, the next real concern is how much political and diplomatic damage has been done...
...people, it kills "children." The problem with pollution is that it poisons "playgrounds." The reason to fight crime is so that "children's lives are not shattered by violence." Look at President Clinton's initiatives: literacy for all eight-year-olds, extra money for child care, adoption tax credits, flex time and family leave. Every voter was a child once, but it's possible that voters without children might have felt a bit lonely at the family table in Chicago...