Word: jointedness
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(10 of 10) health problem, is down 20% since 1967. According to the American Heart Association, strokes have dropped by one-third. Life expectancy has risen to a record 73 years. The cholesterol controversy has Americans eating 6 Ibs. less beef than a decade ago. They also drink 4% less...
Viet Nam, the humiliation of American arms, made it respectable for young men to resist military service. The contempt and indifference that greeted the soldiers who fought the war when they returned home did not exactly glamorize military work, either. Broader international perspectives changed the view of soldiering. Detente (in...
Readers inclined toward traveling heroes may recall the passage in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop where Correspondent William Boot outfits himself for assignment in barbarous Ishmaelia: his kit included a "rather overfurnished tent, three months' rations, a collapsible canoe, a jointed flagstaff and Union Jack, a hand pump and...
Karloff's monster is stiff-jointed and barely verbal; Mary Shelley's monster is quick on his feet and can speak like a Romantic poet on an off night: "I will glut the maw of death until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends." Similarly...
For a play relying so heavily in both form and content on the power of words to have such an actor and actress in lead roles suggests a failure in direction as well. Valerie Lester's approach to the play is impeccably traditional: not necessarily a flaw, but once more...