Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...supporter of the struggle for a normal economic and political life in our country." But there is a hint of criticism of current as well as past party leaders. President Mikhail Gorbachev, said historian Yuri Afanasyev, an elected official of the group, "is justifiably regarded as the man who launched reform. But the time has passed when he can successfully remain the leader of perestroika and the leader of the nomenklatura," the topmost ranks of the party. "He must make a choice." Gorbachev responded at a Supreme Soviet session last week, referring to "provocative appeals" from some of the group...
...damning -- and colorful -- evidence was on tape. In one casual exchange between Drexel's Bruce Newberg and Princeton/Newport partner Charles Zarzecki, the prosecution saw evidence that the co-defendants knew exactly what they were up to. Newberg teasingly calls Zarzecki "a sleaze bag." Zarzecki's retort: "You taught me, man." Replies Newberg: "Welcome to the world of being a sleaze...
...fiasco in Viet Nam and the waning of imperialism to '60s Maoism in both China and the West, from feminism to male chauvinist backlash. "What interested me most from the start," he recalls, "was the idea of the perfect woman. A real woman can only be herself, but a man, because he is presenting an idealization, can aspire to the idea of the perfect woman. I never had the least doubt that a man could play a woman convincingly on the stage...
...productions it showed scant commercial potential. In addition to the screenplay for M. Butterfly, which Hwang will write himself, he is working on three other films: a TV movie for PBS, which he will also direct, about a love affair between an FBI agent and the daughter of a man he hounded to death; "a Victorian rock musical about Oscar Wilde"; and a semiadventure set in Tibet. For the stage, he and Glass hope to adapt Andre Malraux's novel of revolutionary China in the 1920s, Man's Fate, and Hwang is also writing what he opaquely terms a "multicultural...