Word: sisyphus
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...most self-consciously bookish graphical works yet published. Many of the chapters use a canonical literary work as a central metaphor and reference point. Often as tangentially associated with homosexuality as her father, the works cited include The Greek Myths, Camus's The Death of Sisyphus, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, The Great Gatsby and eventually back to the Greek myths by way of James Joyce's Ulysses. The "Ulysses" chapter takes place near the end of Fun Home, when Bechdel must read it for course credit. At the same time she comes out to her parents...
...Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) is little changed from when I was involved in it in that it prefers to labor like Sisyphus rather than acknowledge that it is easier to change infrastructure than it is to change ingrained behavior. It would not be too hard to install more LED lights or master switches for suites that turn off all the lights and power outlets over holidays. This would save a lot of power and be a lot more durable than any marketing campaign. Similarly, extra glazing for windows to provide better insulation would go a lot further than buying...
...seeing the absolute bottom of the arc of foreign-language films playing in U.S. theaters," says Bingham Ray of October Films. "I love these films and want to support them, but it's a real uphill struggle. You feel like Sisyphus." Ray's company distributed The White Balloon, the lovely Iranian fable that the New York Film Critics judged the best foreign-language film of 1996, but which has grossed less than $1 million in its year's release...
...terms turns into a weird poem on current events: “A dramatic monologue: a soliloquy. Subjectivity, objectivity, and euphemism. Conceit: hyperbole. Inversion and irony… the tragic flaw. Protagonist or antihero? Point of view! Epic elements, oxymoronic furies, paradoxical fates. Icarus and Daedalus, or Tantalus and Sisyphus? Or Pandora...
...often, they couldn’t get good dump-ins. And when they did, Cornell sent it right back out of the zone. You heard of Disney on Ice? Well, this was Sisyphus on Ice: Ball rolls up, ball rolls down. Puck goes in, puck goes...