Word: unreason
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...makers to forswear a new Hollywood habit of mind, which dictates that no big-time action film can conclude without an orgy of special effects. As Air Force One climaxes, a lot of people fly through thin air on thin wires. Too bad. The stalking struggle between reason and unreason that precedes it is much more gripping...
...Fire'), had retained its claustrophobic intimacy to the end." As Schickel notes, "no big-time action film can conclude without an orgy of special effects. As 'Air Force One' climaxes, a lot of people fly through thin air on thin wires. Too bad. The stalking struggle between reason and unreason that precedes it is much more gripping...
...figures in anticommunist plays by Pinter or Havel, ready to comply with anything just to end the humiliation and pain. His ugly spiral downward is at once outlandish and entirely plausible, and it had this audience member virtually leaping out of his chair in fury at the injustice and unreason. Whatever the bumps -- and there are a few in Mamet's staging of his text -- the power to incense, like that to sadden or amuse, is reason enough to cheer for the future of the theater...
Western thought since the Renaissance has considered that the course of mankind was ascendant, up out of the shadow of evil and superstition and unreason. Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant creature of the Enlightenment, once wrote, "Barbarism has . . . been receding before the steady step of amelioration; and will in time, I trust, disappear from the earth...
...netherworld carpet for seduction and abandonment of a woman who, when summoned to testify, proves insufferable even to the great adversary. Mamet may mistrust all women -- his essay "True Stories of Bitches" featured his mother, sister and wife -- but this shrew is a giddyingly specific blend of utter unreason and serene self- righteousness. Still, her sins pointedly do not excuse Bobby's. Mamet may josh about the devil but plainly believes in evil -- and finds it entrenched in the heart...