Word: shamed
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Relying on pleasure as a standard of judgment, Hickey has endorsed without shame some of the great middlebrow passions of the past century, from Liberace to Perry Mason. His essay on Siegfried and Roy, the illusionists who make whole pachyderms dematerialize, is the best meditation on a pop-culture subgenre since Susan Sontag met Godzilla. He is suspicious of art that claims to transmit transcendent truths. Jackson Pollock wanted his spattered canvases to represent universal psychic turmoils. Hickey loves them but says they are better regarded as freedom made visible. "They stand as permission for certain kinds of human behavior...
...Knowing everything one could possibly want to know about the word will empower people confronting the word in a negative context,” he said. “It’s a shame when somebody feels diminished in the presence of a word whose meaning has changed so much over time...
...light of Sept. 11, that is really a shame. We are in mourning; we are at war. Perhaps we ought to put consumption aside this holiday season, and do something truly novel: spend more time with the people we love instead of spending more money on them—even if it’s not patriotic...
...with the knife. I bit her; it was all I could do. Then three women came to hold me down. One of them sat on my chest. I bit her with all my might." The women finally let Sylla go, but her uncut status was a mark of shame for her family. "Never, ever would I do this to my daughters," she says. "It strips a woman of her very womanhood...
...tactics may change. But predictions that Sept. 11 would simply shame the movement into quiet defeat were clearly premature...