Word: paragone
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...sisters' frustrated sexual desires. Adult life has been unpleasant to them; and they hope to recover the imagined innocence of childhood by becoming their baby brother's keeper. The towering irony is that Serge's own childhood, shaped by his sister's loving ministrations, precluded his ever being a paragon of innocent morality: we find out that his lover. Nicole (played by Maura Barry), is actually his fourth sister...
...trade. In the Soviet Union he could at least publish a few underground volumes, but in America he loses his voice altogether. Eddie's resentment toward the Soviet dissidents who urge others to emigrate without ever having been in the West themselves is, then, understandable. Limonov repeatedly attacks that paragon of dissidents Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn for instigating Eddie's immigration. For Eddie, Solzhenitsyn is a propaganda artist. In one scene, "the prophet" talks on television; while frustrated Eddie and Elena make their big statement by having intercourse in front...
Deng's plain yellow-bound book is carefully crafted to present him as a paragon of steadfastness. Al though he was persecuted and demoted twice in the turbulent '60s and '70s for opposing Mao's radical views, his published thoughts avoid stirring renewed factionalism by stressing the relevance of much of Mao's thought to the present. At the same time, in blunt and peppery language, Deng denounces Mao's autocratic ways as "feudal" (see box) and the destructive Cultural Revolution as "a big error...
...site on their own bottoms. From 1870 until 1930, the race was set in Lower New York Bay, around Sandy Hook, where local knowledge was crucial. Though the visitors' hardships have gradually, very gradually, lessened through the years, the America's Cup still stands alone as the paragon of all home-course advantages. In 24 competitions, held every three years since 1974, the U.S. has never come close to losing the trophy...
...Harvard, Wilson has been "a paragon of what you can hope for in a professor," according to Dudley R. Herschbach, Baird Professor of Chemistry, a former student of Wilson's. At 74, Wilson continues to do theoretical work on spectroscopy and molecular structure although his graduate students perform the actual experiments. Herschbach says...