Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suffering and shame for having yielded to Quint's powers, she returns to seek revenge. Kierstine seems to have really thought about the character of this former governess. She attracts our sympathy as well as our disgust. She is the inexcusably wronged woman as well as the relentlessly dangerous ghost. Adding to her role, Kierstine uses her arms and head in an almost drugged somnolence. Both' possessed and possessing, she succeeds in mesmerizing not only young Flora, but the audience as well...
...surplus is being used to flog the tourist industry generated by the bonanza of Olympic publicity and the banishment of Princip's ghost. Sarajevo has devoted a $2 million fund solely to cementing the Olympic image by staging additional world-class sporting events--world speed-skating championships, European bobsled championships and the like--in hopes of attracting the fans and tourists who follow them. So far, the strategy is working. With round-trip air fare from New York and seven days in a hotel at the foot of Olympic ski runs costing just $680, the tourists are coming...
...inverted logic from Joseph Heller and his naughty bits from Philip Roth. In fact, Self can be just as shocking and funny as Alexander Portnoy, an accomplishment not likely to go unnoticed. Amis' new novel should have feminists calling for blood and entertainment packagers trying to raise the ghost of John Belushi...
...Turn of the Screw," which was last performed at Harvard in 1966, concerns a governess in an English country house who tries to save the boy and girl the cares for, who are haunted by the ghosts of a previous housekeeper and serve of For example, the young boy's homosexuality--which is caused by the ghost of a former servant--forces him to leave boarding school...
...other a search for self. That quest, and the thoughts it inspires, brings as much pain as enlightenment. In a typical passage, Heaney, who grew up in Northern Ireland, bitterly remembers the Catholic ghetto, and "how quick I was to know my place." In another, he faces the ghost of his cousin Colum, killed in the sectarian violence. "You confused evasion and artistic tact," the murdered man tells him. "The Protestant who shot me through the head/ I accuse directly, but indirectly, you . . . for the way you whitewashed ugliness and drew/ the lovely blinds of the Purgatorio/ and saccharined...