Word: manhoods
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...among the living was more melancholy reflection, namely the identity of all the persons with that which they were in youth, in college halls. I found my old friends the same; the same jokes pleased, the same straws tickled; the manhood & offices they brought hither today seemed masks; underneath, we were still boys...
...that makes the movie, Watson is as dominating as Falconetti was playing Joan of Arc. Watson works her eyes and lips coquettishly, tirelessly, with an ardor rarely seen since Lillian Gish and the other white roses of the silents. She goes pop-eyed with awe at her beau's manhood; every word she speaks is an open-mouthed kiss. She acts volcanically, as any heart does when it pumps with love. She is pure emotion, naked, shameless, unmediated by discretion. These aren't attitudes of passion; this is the genuine article, take it or leave it. Even with our quibbles...
George Bush fumed about jokes that he had put his manhood in blind trust to serve as Ronald Reagan's Vice President. The young Dan Quayle never convinced the country he had the gravitas to be Veep, let alone top man. But the cerebral, private, intensely competitive Al Gore has managed the contortionist's feat of projecting an almost perfect loyalty to his boss's re-election without diminishing himself. Clinton's normally understated political director, Doug Sosnik, gushes when the topic is Gore: "There's not one part of the country where Al Gore is not well received...
...their children, and whatever their failures as husband and wife, they seem to have made a success of their roles as father and mother. If the Waleses have damaged the monarchy terribly, they may also have provided its salvation in William, the bright, likable prince just emerging into young manhood and just beginning to capture the public's imagination. As the divorce brings one act of the royal drama to an end, another one begins, with a fresh and appealing star...
...made his name with such incendiary devices as Bullet in the Head and Hard-Boiled--furious meditations on manhood as a criminal state of grace. Broken Arrow is jokier, less resonant than those dark epics, but it's still a swell night at the movies. The audience gets as pulverizing a workout as the stars do. Or rather, the stars' stunt doubles, who deserve Oscars for best supporting masochism...