Word: virtuously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quality would be consistency. Reagan, Thatcher, Begin, Andropov, the Pope; all different, all stubborn, all operating on presumptions and premises that almost never bend or vary. Bernard Berenson observed, "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." But if consistency were not judged virtuous to some degree, it would hardly be in popular demand, nor would politicians be so passionate to exhibit...
...with brutal abstraction swatting a fly, which for the instant becomes the moral equivalent of any refugee in Casablanca. Or the alltime triumphant moment of literal-minded symbol-banging exposition: Claude Rains dropping the bottle of Vichy Water into a wastebasket and giving it a kick, the charming collaborator virtuous at last...
...should be unembarrassed, even proud of its courage. This is not Oral Roberts University, after all, even if a few of its students might be happier on the board of censors there. Who was that witty, intelligent fellow who said to the prude: "Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" with his sidekick adding:" Yes, by Saint Anne and ginger shall be hot i the' mouth too." Geoffrey Cook...
...Solitude, for example, the fictional village of Macondo, founded by the Buendia family, starts as a green Eden, then falls victim to collective amnesia, a Yanqui fruit company, catastrophic rains and inexplicable bouts of incest before being reclaimed by the jungle. When the beautiful and maddeningly virtuous Remedies Buendia is suddenly levitated heavenward while folding bedclothes, her sister-in-law merely grumbles that the sheets, which also rose, are lost forever. Central to all this is a compression of time, taut with comic invention, in which old tales and contemporary terrors are joined. The opening sentence of Solitude is typical...
...adapted by feature writers and by coaches for locker-room pep talks. At V.F.W. halls, in cocktail lounges, and surgical scrub rooms, Americans on any occasion of victory or defeat, no matter how evanescent, are liable to exclaim, "It's just like Rocky!" The story of the virtuous and vulnerable heavyweight, Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia club fighter who "went the distance" (Rocky, 1976) and battled to the championship (Rocky II, 1979), has become a red, white and blue touchstone of fable, energizing a spark of recognition that few film heroes-and fewer fighters-have ever done...