Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lovers. He is too concerned with establishing the sweetness and beauty of their affair, not enough with emphasizing what is at its center: an irresistible sexual magnetism that can be so surprising to youngsters that it overwhelms them. Worse, in attempting to suggest the play of memory and inner consciousness, Zeffirelli and Screenwriter Rascoe resort to such stale devices as flashbacks, hallucinatory episodes and ghostly voiceovers. There is even a moment when the action comes to a halt and, yes, a title song is played while all the actors go moony-faced. About the only cliche of '40s psychodrama...
...music, of being, a crypto-musical little speech which marks the real opening of Shepard's floodgates. When Petrone, a neighboring saxophonist (played by Nick Wyse looking for all the world like DeNiro in New York, New York) and Laureen, a neighboring bass player (Grace Shohet), arrive, an inner circle rears its head, signalling the end of the commonplace relationship which have gone thus far. And even then Niles himself (Brian McCue) arrives with his compatriot Paulette (Bonnie Zimering) and the play becomes a meditation on the mind...
During his last appearance at Harvard, in October of 1979, the Dalai Lama told a crowd of more than 1000 gathered in Sanders Theater that an understanding of one's inner self was vital to eliminating "coarser levels" of understanding...
Normally when they are deprived of baseball by the coming of fall, the most passionate fans withdraw into what The New Yorker's Roger Angell calls the Interior Stadium. In this inner game, the fan, his mind a brightly specific montage of players and plays accumulated over the years, recombines them in purely speculative fantasy: "Ruth bats against Sandy Koufax or Sam McDowell ... Hubbell pitches to Ted Williams." Angell has written about one of the mysteries of baseball's attraction: "Its vividness, the absolutely distinct inner vision we have of that hitter, that eager base runner, of however...
...whole process is strange. Even the mechanical act is strange-hand takes up Bic or hovers over the Smith-Corona, while the inner voice, heaving between aggressiveness and trepidation, murmurs with all the subtle power of an orator on trial. But no one is there. First one addresses a letter to someone not present, then proceeds to praise, cajole, implore, indict, belittle or seduce the absentee, whom he greets as "dear" and to whom he finally pledges his devoted sincerity. Between the formalities he wants something, but it is not an immediate response. He knows that there will be none...