Word: manichean
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These days the only way Hollywood can tell a story of ordinary people struggling with the awesome challenges and compromises of family life is to reduce them to sugarific fantasy. And further, to view life's choices as Manichean, Jack is either a rich creep or a humanized husband and father. Kate sees it that way: when Jack talks his way into a job with the firm he used to run, she all but refuses the move to Manhattan. Who'd want to leave misery in the 'burbs...
...worse for this chic Manhattanite? - he lives in New Jersey. These days, the only way Hollywood can tell a story of ordinary people struggling with the awesome challenges and compromises of family life is to reduce them to sugarific fantasy. And, further, to view life's choices as Manichean: Jack is either a rich creep or a humanized husband and father. Kate sees it that way: when Jack talks his way into a job with the firm he used to run, she all but refuses the move to Manhattan. Who'd want to leave misery in the 'burbs? "Family...
Wild's still omnipotent fingers transform the instrument into a source of marvels. He can electrify audiences with an impossibly demonic performance of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, move them with an achingly tender account of a Sonetto del Petrarca by the composer or do both with the Manichean Sonata in B Minor...
Unfortunately, it is precisely this type of practical political action which has the most difficult time getting a fair hearing in the press. Driven by the logic of the market to offer briefer and briefer sound bites as programming, newscasts present issues in terms of Manichean contrasts instead of complex human affairs. As the line between news and entertainment gets more and more blurry, the mass media has a narcotizing impact entirely hostile to participatory democracy...
...world is more complicated than the Manichean division of oppressor and oppressed upon which so much liberal polemic is based, and life consists in more than the abundance or equality of material and political possessions which seems to be the summum bonum of most modern liberal thought...