Word: mortality
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...Martha, what you must realize is that you are not a goddess," a teacher once told Martha Graham. "You must admit mortality." That was well over half a century ago, and Graham still gives no hint of admitting that she is mortal. "I've just entered a new cycle of energy," explains America's most inventive modern dancer. "I'm going through a rebirth-with anything artistic one must die to be reborn...
...when mortal men tried to repackage Superman and sell it as camp, no one bought it. It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman flopped that year on Broadway, and it may have been because this poor hero had been too packaged already. But maybe the mentality just wasn't quite distant enough yet: the original Superman was a passion play of technological trash for people who had their fantasies in black-and-white. The perspective is probably more appropriate now. The corruption of the seventies needs to convince itself that it's at least delicious...
...works that would have been laughed at as art ten years ago, as the new media hype began to rob the public of their critical bearings. For Kael, this means that where a movie's mistakes were venial sins in the past, today they are more likely to be mortal. So she keeps hands on holster ready to warn the public of any foul play...
...correct version of the blessing which Rabbi Siegel recited was "Blessed are You, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, Who shares a portion of His glory with mortal man." This blessing, according to Jewish traditional practice and precedent, may be recited whenever one is in the presence of any person who holds chief executive office in a political sovereignty...
...moral spirit, and invented a crisis out of wineglass stuff. And for-all the difference it would have made, he might as well have slept with Chloe. It is a very Catholic confusion. Chloe in the afternoon can be patronized, but Chloe in the evening is a mortal sin. Frederic excruciates over a pedantic distinction...