Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ISRAELIS OF ALL political persuasions are living a New Year of shame in the aftermath of last week's massacre of innocent Palestinian refugees. As the details slowly emerge, it seems clear some members of the military knew of the carnage undertaken by the Christian militia from its start. But the horrors of Shatila and Sabra obscure what we must hope will be the Jewish state's eventual salvation: a working, vibrant democracy...
...looks pleasing ? and it can run a toaster. And her new beauty comes from the fact that there is no more shame, no hiding of the 'mysteries' of the female body. Now she can bare it, muscle it, do anything with, to, and for it she chooses. The new beauty is possibility ? what women can become...
...bizarre results. Scott Bunn's forthcoming Just Hold On, for example, is serious but unfortunately reads like a literary version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Heroine Charlotte Maag, 16, is raped by her father, an Albany pediatrician. She befriends fellow Loner Stephen Herndon, who is hiding the shame and rejection of his own physician-father's alcoholism. By midstory Charlotte is on the sauce, Stephen is involved in a homosexual affair with a football star named Rolf, and both tumble into bed with another couple after a bourbon and pot party. At novel's end, Stephen...
Perhaps the biggest shame is the waste of all those exquisite bodies. Kleiser plays games; filling the screen with unclad gods and goddesses but rarely letting you look for too long or too closely There's so much of it, that the nudity loses all sense of eroticism. The actual sex cryptically hinted at among the protagonists has no impact and elicits no interest...
...their music! Simple, driving, compelling, and at times melodic, they put FM reactionary garbage to shame. Chairman Mao was dead wrong, as this version of the Gang of Four disagrees with-their Chinese namesakes a revolution can be a dinner party Or at least a good show...