Word: neuroticisms
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The womb is the first home. Thereafter, home is the soil you come from and recognize, what you knew before uprooted: creatures carry an imprint of home, a stamp -- the infinitely subtle distinctiveness of temperature and smell and weather and noises and people, the intonations of the familiar. Each home...
In earlier wars, people cheered, the soldiers went marching off, the battles got fought, then after a time the bodies -- and the cost of it all -- started coming home. Reality had its cause and effect, its dramatic pace. Now the natural rhythms of warmaking have gone electronic -- a good thing...
Why plagiarize? Out of some clammy hope for fame, for a grade, for a forlorn fix of approbation. Out of dread of a deadline, or out of sheer neurotic compulsion. Plagiarism is a specialized mystery. Or the mystery may be writing itself. Many people cannot manage it. They borrow. Or...
In the second act, Billy and Teddy proceed to disrupt the quiet veneer of domestic complacency which characterizes Billy's suburban existence. They do so slowly, artfully--skeletons emerge from the closet of each character in the first act, preparing the audience for Teddy's explosive discoveries in the second...
As the neurotic Queen, actress Nell benjamin carries the show. Her dramatic instincts are unerring. Benjamin displays an impressive mastery of her monologues; her voice is alternately cajoling, strident and self-mocking. Her striking stage movement assures her dramatic dominance.