Word: sexlessness
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...target; his portrayal of Bingham, the elderly businessman with a penchant for health foods and naked women comes across particularly well. Maywald turns in the evening's most impressive performance, handling a wider range of roles than anyone else in the play. In her brief part as an efficient, sexless stenographer, clicking away at her typewriter while barking orders over her shoulder at the other stenographers, Maywald's characterization is sharp and perfectly loathsome. Playing a remarkably different role, she precisely captures Eleanor Stoddard, the attractive sophistocate who keeps Moorehouse hanging on a string...
...street, we may be simultaneously tempted to avert our eyes and to stare; but in the latter case we feel no threat to those desperately maintained boundaries on which any definition of sanity ultimately depends. Only the true Freak challenges the conventional boundaries between male and female, sexed and sexless, animal and human, large and small, self and other, and consequently between reality and illusion, experience and fantasy, fact and myth...
...result has been a kind of sexless recovery lacking passion, purpose and satisfaction. No one has got terribly excited about it, least of all the nation's investors. Last week they drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average down to 919, a 14-month low and a drop of 80 points since the start of the year; it rebounded to 927 on Friday. The market sagged despite bullish economic news. The nation's unemployment rate in March dropped to 7.3%, from February's 7.5%. The Commerce Department's index of leading indicators, a harbinger of growth, rose...
...rumpled jersey and the battle-scarred helmet wouldn't give it away. Neither would the powerful skating nor the sexless "L. Wood" that would appear in the morning paper's boxscore...
...suggested. Finally, there is the problem of Big Nurse, the chief authority symbol in McMurphy's little world and his main antagonist. In the book, a good deal of the tension between them is oddly sexual. In the film, Big Nurse (Louise Fletcher) is merely a prim, quite sexless nag and a symbol only of niggling institutionalism. So nothing of any dramatic power gets going between her and McMurphy...