Word: humanize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should not get carried away. The Soviet Union is still a one-party dictatorship, the economy is ramshackle, the bureaucracy is a menace, and what about human rights, Mr. General Secretary? Nonetheless, Soviet writers, artists and journalists have begun issuing the sort of critiques that used to earn a one-way ticket to Siberia. So has the boss. Take, for instance, this blast at Gosplon, the state planning committee: "They do what they want, and the situation they like best is . . . when everybody...
...underscore his high-minded intentions, he calls his book a fable. This is somewhat misleading, since there are no animals that talk like people but plenty of human characters who sound feral. A Mafia bill collector: "You either got $220 for me or I take your f------ ear home with me." An unwed teenage mother: "I waited to have a baby until I was 15. That's a long time. From eleven to 15 waitin' to have a baby." A slumlord: "The original reason I went to Dobermans was that I fell in love with their teeth. I thought they...
...concluding thoughts, Huston yields the screen to his beloved master in a wonderfully self-effacing way. The powerful words are voiced over the simplest imaginable montage of Irish snowscapes. Huston's great contribution is only this: he gently imparted to his film an old man's tolerance for human frailty, thereby tempering a young man's impatience with...
Aristotle theorized that the father's degree of arousal during intercourse determined the offspring's sex; great excitement, he reasoned, produced a boy. In the 1920s, scientists confirmed the existence of human sex chromosomes, two of the 46 chromosomes people normally carry. Ordinarily, women have two X chromosomes, whereas men have an X and a Y. In 1959 the sex determining factor was traced to the Y chromosome. But it was still unclear whether the "switch" consisted of one gene or many...
...glimpse of small-town, turn-of-the-century New Hampshire as sweet, sentimental, nostalgic and funny. It was all those things. But it was also -- and remains, 50 years after its first public performances in January 1938 -- groundbreakingly unconventional in form and chafingly unsettling in its view of human nature. More than any other play in American literature, Our Town opened the minds of the mainstream to nonliteral ways of telling a story. Unlike the domestic tragedy of Williams and Miller and O'Neill, Our Town took the sweeping view that a misspent life is not a pitiable exception...