Word: leaden
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Their skin is stiff. Their soles are thick, leaden slabs. Their tongues rival those of aardvarks, and their lightest step can be deafening. It is easy to see why they are called "monsters." And it is all but impossible to miss them. Great, galumphing, paralyzingly ugly, monsters are nonetheless the most visible shoes around today...
PUTTING Jews, blacks. Indians, and Mexicans in a play about Everyman may be Scott's way of universalizing Beckett's message. It's not at all clear that the play needs such leaden-fingered tampering. But it is clear that Scott's changing the ending of the play is a perversion of intent. In Beckett's text both acts end the same...
...that is offered to him is influence; and that seems to him an offensive concession. Hence, he wages a self-destructive war. Hatred becomes his substitute for power." The Eastern European intellectual, on the other hand, "doesn't miss power. He knows too well what a leaden burden is perennially attached to it. All he dreams about is influence. He knows that in enlarging margins of freedom and human dignity, influence is more instrumental than power...
...Woodstock participants actually want their mud-soaked experience unfolding in leaden colar in a tightly ushered, red-carpeted, air-conditioned movie house which charges anti-people prices. Similarly, few persons who have been closely involved with the underground press can really appreciate Mrs. Romm's commentary which supplements this collection of cartoons, articles, and photographs. The Open Conspiracy however, is not directed at these intensely partisan initiates so much as it is aimed at the silent, confused legions of Middle America...
...prophets and saints, and art has its Pluches-aesthetic Jesuits, Leathernecks of creativity, defenders of aristocratic art-soul against bourgeois art-stomach, men of passion and appetite, of sublime ups and leaden downs. Pluche is a talented, unfashionable, moderately successful painter who is down-or, in Jean Dutourd's words, "chained down in hell amid the circle of the frivolous damned, where everything is mere diversion, where one only hears rank stupidities, where one only says stupidities oneself, where one is bored to death without ever dying...