Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responds Woody. "I look around the world and all I see is human suffering." "Tell funnier jokes," demand the critics, "too much reality is not what the people want." "Yeah, but I've got to find meaning," insists Woody, as if his jokes have no "meaning." It's a shame, but the fantasy-worlds of his "early comedies" held more meaning than all the self-important intellectualizing of Stardust Memories...
PERSUADING FRIENDS to visit an exhibition of an artist as little-known as Gabriele Munter may be difficult, but it is well worth the trouble. Few are familiar with Munter's work; that's a shame. Munter's significant contribution to the Blaue Reiter movement, a reaction to impressionism that stressed abstract forms, merits far greater attention than it has received until now. Her participation in this avant-garde group, however, does not constitute her major achievement; the Blaue Reiter fails to encompass the whole extent of Munter's quiet originality of style...
...band, now famous for putting the Harvard musicians to shame, turned up in mirror sunglasses and white hats, ranging from tennis hats to berets and chef's caps. Crimson band member Meg Ziegler said about last Friday's battle of the bands in the Yard, "When they started playing Santana we knew we were out of our league." Stanford's halftime show, "Brief History of American Violence," featured an ax formation in honor of Lizzie Borden, and S&M formation, and one of Sid V., a tribute to the Sex Pistols. Music such as "Satisfaction" and "It Don't Come...
...shame Presidents can't put their brothers in a blind trust the way they do their businesses...
Your article on herpes simplex [July 28], while accurate insofar as the clinical experience of the disease is concerned, presented an overly pessimistic portrayal of its human dimensions. Certainly having herpes is annoying and at times inconvenient; but to suggest that incessant guilt, shame, depression and suicidal feelings are anything more than exceptions -rare exceptions-is to emphasize the exceptions at the expense of the rule...