Word: tuberculars
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...like his opponent, he is an unbudging advocate of rent control. Flynn, a former probation officer, who was a star basketball player at Providence College, says that in Boston the gravest inequality is economic, not racial. Accordingly, he tries not to pander to conventional white prejudices. His mother and tubercular father were on the dole for several years, he says, and so loose talk about " 'welfare chiselers' and 'welfare cheats' makes my stomach turn...
...emotional impact Long Day's Journey ...is a play in four acts that traces the development of the Tyrone family through agonizing dialogues between the four characters during one day Events of the past are highlighted through solitary confessions from the drug-addict mother, the Irish actor father, the tubercular younger son and the bitter and cynical older...
...lack of props gives the few objects O'Neill does use--a bottle of whiskey, a wedding dress--more prominence. He also clarifies the meaning of O'Neill masterly use of sounds (the first discussion of the play concerns the father's snoring). For example, the coughing of the tubercular son, the footsteps upstairs, the interfering foghorn add ominous dimensions to the play's atmosphere...
...formed, and toes were twisted irreversibly under the arch; African women used discs to form platypus lips; in Burma, tribeswomen encircled their necks with so many heavy metal rings that the vertebrae would separate. In the early 19th century, English fashion in female bodies was ethereal, emaciated; a tubercular fragility was considered attractive. Women subsisted on a diet of vinegar and belladonna to achieve the Pre-Raphaelite "fatal slimness." The crowning, confining glory of Victoriana was the whalebone corset, which gave Actress Lillie Langtry her "ideal" 38-18-38 measurements, and which sometimes displaced internal organs. For some women, that...
...Lawrences travel from New Mexico to Mexico. Where Lawrence is diagnosed tubercular, and return to wander through Europe in search of a cure. Miles uses Lawrence's ambiguous sexual orientation as a vehicle for suspense. It is intensely depressing to watch lan McKellen and Janey Suzman frolic in bed with all the emotion and ingenuousness of a whoreand her john. It is even more discouraging to see McKellen swimmaked on his back in an English lake. Gratuitous nudity translates this unmanageable passion Miles seems so intent on portraying into a vulgar act with all the subtlety of a road-side...