Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lights as they began to flash, and stilled with an even-song the unvoiced terror of my life. The idea of the veil, as the way a man sees his life, is frightening and horrible. It cries out and angers you. Imagine such a limitation, such a prison for oneself or one's children. It was an indication of the distress under which this Black man lived, and many other Black men and women as well. The veil was both an image and an accurate description of the condition of Black life in America, a cover of the rage...
...clamoring strings sink to a mutter, to wave again, and hear the brass crashing out in triumph, to throw up a finger, then another and another, and to know that with every one the orchestra would bound forward into a still more ecstatic surge and sweep, to fling oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one's hand, and then to set them all singing and soaring in one final sweep, with the cymbals clashing at every flicker of one's eyelid, to sound the grand Amen...
...tempted to shrug off Government ways, consoling oneself with the cynical belief that even the most guarded information eventually leaks out. The trouble is that leakage is neither dependable nor always timely. "Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead," Benjamin Franklin said, and there may be truth to that. But such folklore is no substitute for a sensible public policy. The public vs. Government skirmish over how much classification there should be will probably go on forever and, in any democracy, should...
Streetsmart has tips on how to protect oneself from muggings and robberies: it re-states commonsense wisdom like not remaining in a half-empty subway car if someone starts threatening to rob you, or not walking in high-crime areas alone after dark. Such advice can never be repeated enough, but the style of the book should be carefully noted by both fans and critics of the Angels. Sliwa and Schwartz repeatedly pander to the worst fears and stereotypes held by white middle-class city and suburban dwellers...
Still, there is something distant and unemotional about the way Benton presents her mysterious case. As the movie proceeds, one finds oneself examining its references (Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window, Psycho, Spellbound) rather than getting truly involved with the story. Soon a longing for the rat-tat-tattiness of sleazier Hitchcock knockoffs like Dressed to Kill steals over the viewer...