Word: fool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others daringly tried to break new ground. The Beatles shocking mid-60's release. "The Fool on the Hill" was widely viewed as a thinly-veiled caustic reworking of the Sermon on the Mount. Other noteworthy holiday originals from the past include the somewhat more reverential. "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison and Three Dog Night's lilting "Joy to the World...
...confusingly enough, are written as insensitive, wine-soaked and opportunistic sods who don't know what's happening under their noses, making Judas shine by comparison. The Romans are comically and stereotypically nasty, except when they cross the line into perversely effective high camp. Caiaphas and the High Priests fool everyone late in Act I, pulling an unexpectedly macabre moment out of the end of "This Jesus Must...
...channels and fundamentally alters the worker's reality, much like a totalitarian regime. For example, on their way to a hardware store, he rips down all the Solidarity posters before his companions can see them. He even goes so far as to alter the time on his watch to fool the workers into a 20-hour work...
...McDaniel, a Vietnam War veteran who attempted to portray incumbent Charles Whitley as an unrepentant fool of the Democratic leadership...
...first persons mingle, and time runs in either direction. In the present, a terminal patient named Judith Glazer beleaguers family and friends with hostile honesty and acrid humor: "Neither will I be wired to any of those medical busy-boxes to extend for one damned minute what only a fool would call my life. If Jesus wants me He can have me. To tell you the truth, He can probably use me." Her friend, a gifted writer named Messenger, unaccommodated by big-league literary life and politics, feels that he is second-string...