Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of ritual offering to the gods--the gods, that is, of prosperity and business success. Cups of rice and wine, bowls of fruit, sweet incense are all left in the newly occupied office building to please the gods who dwell there; if they are pleased, the business in their office will prosper. Michael Yang, American-educated in journalism and in sales, waves incense and prays to the gods of money. He burns ritual money on the floor of the new office; the false gold bills fill the room with smoke until the fire is doused with wine...
They occupy an imaginary booth. Oliver begins plying Carrie with sweet talk, and intimacy becomes ardor. Swept away by their playacting, they end the scene clinging and kissing. What is doubly enchanting about this moment is that Jean Kerr has shown us in miniature precisely how the dramatic imagination works, how we as playgoers are carried across the threshold from reality to illusion in the twinkling of a craftsmaster...
Yesterday's freshman football team did not play in the Stadium before 40,000-plus screaming fans, but the 33-0 pasting that Harvard's freshmen handed Yale tasted almost as sweet as the real thing...
...South Dakota viewer watches a basketball player dribble and perform basketball acrobatics. The background music is "Sweet Georgia Brown." The narrator: "Globetrotter is a great name for a basketball team, but it's a terrible name for a senator." In Idaho, one television commercial shows an empty missile silo. The announcer tells the viewer that our weakened military is a direct manifestation of the votes cast by Frank Church in the Senate. Indiana commercials, later called "baloney ads," picture slices of baloney with multimillion dollar price tags on them, equalling the dollar count on deficit spending approved by Birch Bayh...
...world is for men, where do women exist? If women exist only to be angels, what of our darker thoughts? Some of Gilbert and Gubar's conclusions inspire shouts of "Eureka!" Snow White, for instance, isn't an Oedipal struggle, but a feminist one. The two women--sweet, passive Snow White, and the evil, active Queen are simply mirror images of each other, and the battle is not to win the man but to reconcile the two sides of the feminine psyche. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written when she was pregnant (an almost continuous state for her from ages...