Word: wallowingly
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...characters drop from exhaustion. Though the crimes are clarified, the real mystery of why his characters are unhappy--as opposed to how--is sketched and explored but never solved. Initially, one thinks this is because Mailer suffers from his own macho image: he does not want to wallow in moralizing. Perhaps this is the correct interpretation. But, following the theory of polarities. Mailer avoids the problem not only because he is too tough but also because he is too tough but also because he is too chicken--he has wimped out. To give an authorial opinion on what happiness...
Sound a little psychotic? That's the whole point of Repo Man, a movie which unabashedly aims to wallow in its own neurotic. Road Warrior or Decline--Repo Man, the first film by Mike Nesmith (yes, the guy from the Monkees), can't seem to decide which it wants to be, and so it is a mishmash of the two, which is not necessarily a bad thing, though it doesn't work here. Slap-dash road violence in the post-nuclear age (or pre-, as the case may be) and the pathetic tribulations of alienated punks--the two mix seamlessly...
...desire of Harvard-nurtured to write Harvard novels is, of course, not new. And as Amanda Cross and Erich Segal have already demonstrated, and Silver makes abundantly clear, there are ways of satisfying that urge which do not involve subjecting the reading public to an embarrassing wallow in nostalgic meditation. Not that the excesses of more "serious" Harvard novelists such as George A. Weller '29 and Faye Levine '65 aren't understandable; writers are supposed to write from experience, and any Harvard career as Real and Grand and Full as these writers seem to have had just cries...
Hart also supports the freeze, but, unlike Mondale, he does not wallow in its symbolism, or pretend that a freeze can be easily negotiated. Despite increasingly hysterical charges by Mondale that Hart is the dupe of Reagan's legislative ploy to pass the MX missile proposal. Hart voted against the Reagan MX missile build-down program on October...
Another therapy called Morita also aims at erasing introspection and getting patients back to work. For a week patients are confined to bed, with no visitors, no TV and no reading matter. Forced to wallow in their own thoughts, they come to see that action is better than endless self-obsession. Patients then work outdoors for two weeks, going from light to heavy labor. They also attend indoctrination lectures. No talk about the self is allowed. The whole program is tinged with a sense of resignation: things are the way they...