Word: skeletonization
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...When Oedipus is bent on throttling Haemon at one point, Jocasta begs him to stop, calling out "Oedipus, I am your mother-obey me!" The irony, and the insight, of Sloan's version of the myth is that Oedipus has deeply known it all along, known that the skeleton in every man's closet is himself. So has Jocasta known it. So have the children. This is not, therefore, a discovery of the self but an unveiling of the rottenness of the self. Sloan seems to be saying that this is the way the world runs from...
...that intrinsically depressing material can't work in the musical theatre; the best of recent musicals- Gypsy, Fiddler, Cabaret -all were tragic at the core. But, if seriousness is handled with anything short of perfection in a musical, the result is the worst kind of mess: the skeleton of a heavy play slowed down by the injection of music and dance...
...that you have the setting, you must construct a plot around the basic love-story theme of boy meeting girl- which is merely the skeleton. Segal cleverly dresses up his skeleton with class conflict- he chooses a poor Cliffie as the girl his richboy hero meets- and a sad ending. The sad ending is a good device: it prevents reviewers from degrading fiction by calling it "light" or "trivial...
...after a gigantic review of every member's behavior during the Dubček era, new ones issued. Who will get the new cards? The ultraconservatives argue that the party should expel anyone who supported Dubček. That, of course, would reduce the party to a skeleton. Echoing Huáak, the party paper Rudé Právo declared last week that there should be a distinction "between those who were misled and those who did the misleading." Similarly, Radio Prague promised that the screening process would be "neither a police raid nor a penal expedition...