Word: lint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adult Anton (Derek de Lint) tries to bury his past and his feelings. Tellingly, he becomes an anaesthetist. But history keeps intruding upon his life. The Korean War draft, the 1956 anti-communist riots in Amsterdam, the funeral of a famous Resistance leader in 1967, and the present-day anti-nuclear movement all strike Anton close to home, figuratively and literally...
Anton (who is portrayed as an adult by a wonderfully wary actor named Derek de Lint) keeps running into other witnesses to the assault and its aftermath: the underground fighter who was one of the assassins; the woman who helped move the murdered man's body; even the son of the victim. Indeed, Anton, without seeming quite aware of what he is doing, marries a woman who looks like the Resistance heroine with whom he shared a cell on the night of the assault and who, it is revealed, also participated in it (both are played, with a spirit that...
...Marquand, how many times have I told you that you must clean all the lint from the oriental rug and build a station wagon out of it before I get home...
...clothing manufacturers put all those pins in new shirts? There is no dazzler at the end; he just stops talking, smiles and waves. The reader is warmed by the happy illusion that he himself could have said all that stuff. Rooney a celebrity? Come on, he's got lint in his pockets just like everyone else...
Question: What do Caesar and Madonna have in common? Answer: immortality. No, Dewitt is not talking about a certain greasy salad dressing or the lint-free bellybutton. Augustus and Madonna have given us the most prized possession of historians and glibmeisters: the buzzword, what historians who like to use foreign languages call (and italicize) the zeitgeist. Augustus gave us the Augustan age; Madonna has given us the Age of Desperation...