Word: profoundest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read again, because the words are frozen upon the page and therefore have a sort of timeless status. TV rushes headlong through real time, and given the constrictions of schedule, it is often a second-rate instrument with which to pursue the truth. The written word can commit the profoundest treacheries with the truth, but the hope of writing is at least to preserve the active integrity of the brain that is receiving the words. Television, flowing into an inherently passive mind, sometimes has darker ambitions...
...Shah Zaman tritely concludes, "maybe love is a fiction, but it is the profoundest of all" and he and Doony decide to just wait until tomorrow to act, one is left with a frustrating sense of bewilderment. Which path in feminism is the drama supporting--aggressive separateness or passive complacency...
Outrage it he did, to the point of being regarded by some as a kind of Southern gothic erotomaniac. Williams dealt in taboos, yet the taboo is often the touchstone of drama: in the profoundest Greek play, a man murders his father and marries his mother. Williams mesmerized as well as outraged playgoers with Orpheus Descending (murder by blowtorch), A Streetcar Named Desire (rape, nymphomania), Summer and Smoke (frigidity), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (impotence, alcoholism, homosexuality) Sweet Bird of Youth (drug addiction, castration), Suddenly Last Summer (homosexuality, cannibalism), and The Night of the Iguana (masturbation, fetishism, coprophagy...
...being less literate than Mr. Simon; as to being a follower of his, I would respectfully demur. But does it really matter? More to the point, I am hurt and chagrined to be assailed in such a surreptitious way by a fellow critic for whom I have only the profoundest respect...