Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JOYCE CAROL OATES is any indication, modern literature has entered a stage of terminal morbidity. Oates' picture of reality is so bleak that it could only be appreciated by a civilization dying slowly of self-disgust. Oates' characters are devoid of any sympathetic traits--not only are they lost and lonely, they are faceless and neurotic and filled with hate. Oates strips existential crisis of all its nobility, turning it into a form of mental illness. She transforms spiritual torment into a loathsome disease, a kind of leprosy of the soul...
Clearly the FSLN is preparing itself for a post-Somoza political stage, which now appears to be forthcoming. The FSLN runs the risk of being gravely weakened as a political force in that stage unless it secures the right to build a political apparatus (as it already has in the universities) capable of affecting state power and thereby addressing the aspirations of the masses that the FSLN, more than any other movement in Nicaragua, represents. Such an apparatus would translate the popular following of the front into a mass political organization capable of achieving victory through a free electoral process...
...broke into a broad grin and roared: "Barbara, so you did come." He stretched out his hand to greet Barbara Walters of ABC. A moment later, he was shouting "Walter!" and pumping the hand of CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite, whose double interview with Sadat and Begin had set the stage for the visit. Sadat clearly enjoyed the company of these media celebrities. Aboard the plane, he tweaked Walters about her much-publicized ABC contract: "Barbara, you make a million dollars a year, and my salary is only $12,000." "Yes, Mr. President," she answered, "but you have fringe benefits, like...
...Waits was growling. In a few hours he would be on a campus stage singing his songs and spieling his narrative jazz poetry to an audience of college kids. It was a trip he had made before. "I'd rather play a club with vomit all around me," he rasped, "than a clean little college with sassy little girls and guys with razor-cut hair and coke spoons around their necks...
...David's lifestyle and David, played by John Heard who captures the essence of the jovial, macho stereotype, lashes back: "So you want to be Romeo do you? Well, you know, Romeo ended up dead." This little piece of not-so-subtle adumbration ends Part One and sets the stage for the next phase of the movie. Enter dream girl...