Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relocated near the women. Heads shaved, they seem of one sex or of none. Some are naked. They are penned in a small dark space; they smell of urine; their thighs are stained with excrement. They seem to moan continually. One boy shivers, another laughs. A legless girl spoons mush into the mouth of a younger one. A woman lurches forward and shouts in English: "I am normal...
...familiar to anyone who has ever given a speech or been in a school play. Arthur Rubinstein called it "the price I pay for my wonderful life." It prevented Singer Carly Simon from performing for five years, and, without fail, it reduces Actress Maureen Stapleton to pale green mush...
...sympathetic Rodrigo when he forgets he's playing an idiot. But Aideen O'Kelly's Amilla is dowdy refugee form a detergent commercial, confusing ingenuousness with imbecility, and she is embarrassingly inadequate vocally in the last scene. And a special nod to Paticia Maurceri's grotesque, campy and mush-mouthed Bianca--the actress should be swiftly jettisoned...
Clearly nothing as simple as mere beauty, or sensuality, or torment, or any ordinary combination of these qualities will reduce both Charles and cynical 20th century filmgoers to the requisite mush. Fowles uses a good many words and some carefully worked literary effects to evoke Sarah's strangeness: "It was an unforgettable face, and a tragic face. Its sorrow welled out of it as purely, naturally and unstoppably as water out of a woodland spring. There was no artifice there, no hypocrisy, no hysteria, no mask; and above all, no sign of madness. The madness was in the empty...
...turned his back). And it is possible that people have affection for Koch not because he is a wised-up sucker, but because they detect that he is a sucker still, quite unwised-up, just -like a great many New Yorkers who are no-nonsense on the outside and mush within...