Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Borg builds quickly and economically to this image, then unhurriedly works away from it, first shifting his emphasis from object to character, then from character to performer. Stripping the trio of their cloaks and masks, Borg leaves them with nothing more than their power as performers to carry on the disguise--not as real-life caricatures but as apparitions, dark imaginings. The work ends with a swift reversal of the transformation: cutting short their interaction as performers, the three twirl each alone, bobbing down to snatch up their overcoats, becoming one again with their masks...
Spirit's Scalpel. Some clergymen object strenuously to Stapleton's ministry on the ground that there is no biblical basis for her technique or that she is practicing psychotherapy without a license. Most psychiatrists seem to be unaware of her work, although she offers a version of her standard workshop for secular therapists. To critics, she insists that it is legitimate to probe into "the subconscious depths with the scalpel of the Holy Spirit...
...human body is one of comedy's supple tools. In agility, it releases tonic exuberance. As an object of humiliation through banana-peel pratfalls or pies in the face, it evokes instant delight. Even distortions or grotesqueries of the body-obesity, dwarfishness, eccentric gaits, tics, stutters, deafness and drunken staggers-have all been known to provoke a startling comic catharsis in playgoers...
...does the dishes are now called into question. But she says sadly she doesn't see much change in the basic health care provided women; and from her perspective, that exemplifies a need for other changes in society that will have to accompany women's liberation. "What we really object to is the profit motive in medicine, which keeps doctors treating their knowledge as a kind of special secret, rather than sharing it with women," she says. "And that doesn't show many signs of disappearing...
...illegitimate, makes for an aristocracy. But if the individual fails to play a part in community affairs or drinks too heavily, his position is slowly eroded. Upward mobility is also possible within limits. The best families can only be those most directly descended from great ancestors, who are the object of a community cult. But in a large in-marrying population of only about 300, almost every family can claim a link to some great man with which to back a claim of superior respectability...