Word: plumpness
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...directors may for some Freudian hallucinatory explanation of Macbeth, for example, the story makes little sense unless the witches are actual witches. This doesn't mean the supernatural must be portrayed as exotic: the most chilling thing about those women might be their normality, as if they were plump, middle-aged matrons nattering across a backyard fence about their ability to conjure spirits. That very perception of character seems to have guided Geraldine Page in a less malevolent but equally necromantic role, the ghost-summoning Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's larkish Blithe Spirit, which was revived on Broadway last...
Beyond the glitter, the latest steps in Gorbachev's drive to reform Soviet society produced a mosaic of hopeful and chilling signs. While the Kremlin leader continued to plump for peace and told his visitors that Moscow was sincere in its "new approach to humanitarian problems," the Soviet bureaucracy seemed as stolid as ever. Officials issued confused and conflicting statements about Iosif Begun, an ailing Jewish dissident who at week's end was finally released after a 40-month confinement. As the Begun drama proceeded, perhaps a thousand political prisoners remained in detention in Soviet prisons and psychiatric hospitals...
Upon close examination these stories like discrete planets plump out and touch each other and merge into a world we recognize, a world of heartbreaking relationships and loneliness, yet also of love...
...after the election. That directive was widely derided as a transparent ploy, but it worked, thanks partly to some unwitting assistance from Democratic Nominee Walter Mondale. Bradley and Gephardt had visited Mondale to plead that he adopt tax reform as a major issue, but the nominee declined, preferring to plump for a tax increase that turned out to be about as popular as, well, a tax increase...
...Rendell fans, it may be a bit disappointing to learn that neither book features sly, plump, kindly old Reg Wexford and stern, judgmental, middle-aged John Burden. Live Flesh rests instead on a daring premise: a released convict's obsessive determination to make a friend of the policeman whom he shot and paralyzed while resisting capture. The policeman and the reader are alternately encouraged to believe in this felon's capacity for rehabilitation and disillusioned by his consuming selfishness. Complicating the uneasy relationship is the criminal's growing attraction toward the woman whom the policeman means to marry and cannot...