Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hall meal to the homeless. Here's how it works: You sign up in advance to skip dinner one night, and Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) donates $1.50 to a local food-for-the-homeless program. You go and eat at Chef Chow's, and in addition to the warm massaging of General Gau's Chicken Balls, you have the feeling of charity and sacrifice in your MSG-coated stomach...
...that it is along the lines of an Orwellian Big Brother phenomenon (could it be the television monitor perched near the ceiling, fixed on the characters below?). Ada and Meg (Yvonne Roemer and Calysta Drake) are chief-and assistant-washroom attendants, who encounter a series of women seeking a warm place to eat breakfast, to relieve themselves, and to expound their views on why men are wonderful and warm, beastly or boring...
...once loved (or still love) each other very much would know how to destroy each other like this; only once, Martha alludes to this, "[George] who can make me laugh, and I choke it back in my throat; who can hold me at night, so that it's warm, and whom I will bite so there's blood...who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving me and must be punished...
Ruby in Paradise" is a film in the style of "Gas, Food, Lodging"--that is, a let's-define-and-celebrate-the-woman-of-the-90's cinematic elegy. Both films take place in warm, Southern, laid-back American climes, closely examine the dilemmas of females in their milieus and prescribe a "back to nature", "be content with who you are" approach to healing. But whereas the earlier film espouses a traditional family and community ethic, the protagonist of "Ruby in Paradise" finds peace of mind in individuality and self-reliance...
...reach its critical mass until the chorus,when it becomes downright anthemic in its sweepand drama. The lyrics of "kerosene" are adisarmingly blunt look at the world ofhomelessness, where men and women die fromexposure, where "shelter is the privilege of thesane and competent," and where burning kerosenekeeps people warm...