Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insistence of his publisher, the author hurriedly speaks of old agonies, the balm of forgetfulness, and of his conviction that all wars are futile and immoral. There is even the ritual reference to what Wilfred Owen called the old Lie: "Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori"- how sweet and beautiful it is to die for one's country...
...political issues are always transient, that the Olympic spirit is transcendent. That is what Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the Panglossian founder of the modern Olympics intended. During the twelve centuries of the ancient Games, warring states and tribes suspended their homicidal business every four years and flocked to the sweet valley beyond Mount Kromion to compete for crowns of wild olive. Now, some athletes complain, a reverse logic applies; the Games get suspended at the first intimation...
...providing sexual services to well-off middle-aged ladies. He is pretty, smartly dressed and inarticulate when any serious subject comes up; yet one can understand what a neglected wife might see in him. His power with women derives not from being aggressively male but from being ingratiatingly sweet. He is good at his work and is sufficiently self-aware to understand that his exceptional talent is ultimately self-defeating: he can give pleasure but never receive it. Indeed, the film's major psychological twist occurs when Julian discovers his capacity to believe in and accept the love...
Performers of Larson's type are often only shadows of the carefully tailored selves they project to the public. In private, filling the empty days between engagements, they try to find an intensity to match that of their onstage moments. There is a sweet emptiness about them, a vacancy that leaves byslanders fecklessly trying to connect the dots of their personalities...
...Sweet, banal stuff but why write pages...