Word: shamelessness
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...York's shameless Senator disrupted delicate diplomacy by unsuccessfully trying to enter Lithuania without a Soviet visa. Was the Baltic ballet staged to make folks forget that he's mired in influence-peddling scandals...
...confront an uncomfortable truth about his friend. Daniel Hugh Kelly splits the difference. His Brick unmistakably was capable of physical love with Skipper; just as unmistakably, he remains capable of physical love with Maggie in what is played as an altogether redemptive final scene. Turner's fierce and shameless yearning for him ignites the play. Her understanding and tenderness warm the last long topple into...
...vibrancy, The Quincunx occasionally seems to be too much of a good thing. In order to wring maximum suspense out of each encounter, Palliser allows his narrator some shameless stalling. "Not so fast," one character remarks, when asked a leading question, and the reader is inclined to mutter, "Faster." John's mother is particularly maddening in her refusals to answer her son's questions. A typical response: "No, I won't tell you that. Not yet. One day you'll know everything." Postulate a more forthcoming parent, and the novel would be 200 pages shorter...
...curated by Franklin Kelly, this is the first full-dress Church exhibition in 25 years, and it gives us the man whole: his poetic eye, his formidable ability to marshal vast quantities of visual data, his passion for botany and geology -- and his flashes of provincial vulgarity too, his shameless playing to the gallery. If one wants to understand the 19th century appetite for pictorial mastery as a metaphor of the conquest of "untrammeled" nature, this is the show to start with...
Washington, Paris, London and other capitals chose to overlook Ceausescu's steel Stalinist hand at home, where he enforced a shameless cult of his own personality. He tolerated neither dissent among citizens nor a difference of opinion inside the party. He appointed his wife to the Politburo, his sons to high party and government rank and more than 30 other relatives to official positions. He basked in such honorifics as the Genius of the Carpathians and the Danube of Thought while treating the Rumanian people with extraordinary cruelty...