Word: greeds
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...fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin/ He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in/ He's the neighborhood bully." Union Sundown is an agitated piece about how dreams of workers and solidarity have been sold out by greed, while the song that ends the album, Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight, combines tentative feelings of love with bleak reveries of fate in a way that no writer of simple love songs ever could...
...wants: power and a bored blond mistress (Michelle Pfeiffer), with a Kew-pie-doll mouth soured into a who-cares sneer and the bad habit of powdering her nose from the inside. Tony also develops a paternal letch for his teen-age sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). The combination of greed and blood lust is too much for this bad guy to handle; if one doesn't get him, the other will. And in the end, both...
...unconsciously acute. She instinctively understands that what is developing around her is a tragedy of manners; Snider has read the bottom line shrewdly, but he has a blind eye and a tin ear for the social pieties, even the dress code, by which naked need and manipulative greed must be clothed for the sake of the respectability he desperately desires...
...Glass Menagerie and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire--struggle with self-control and eventually find themselves unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. The characters in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, however, face an unmistakingly real existence controlled by alcoholism, latent homosexuality, and insatiable desire and greed. A successful production of any Williams play requires an intimate understanding of the underlying themes and a willingness to confront them straight on without embellishing the lines with sappy overacting. In a Williams play, the starkness of the words themselves creates the overlying tensions and consequently should be allowed to speak...
...vices, wandering before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls." We become those elaborately varied creatures, we take their forms. Odysseus' companions were transformed into swine, but in the metamorphosis, their intelligence remained human, unaffected. In reality, when men are transformed into beasts, for whatever reason (anger, greed, lust, drugs), their intelligence is usually very much affected, for the worse. Unlike Odysseus' men, they keep their human forms but assume the character of beasts...