Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inescapable problem is the play's candy-box presentation of mortal agony as a peaceful, painless passing into a warm yellow light, followed by a resumption for eternity of one's former games and rituals. Save for about three minutes of medical candor, this is a vapid insult to anyone struggling with the real problem of mortality. Perhaps Scott, 64, finds this inanity reassuring. But what a pity to waste his gifts on piffle...
...approached the city from the north, the light of the setting sun was reflected off the Jerusalem limestone of the old walls, offering a warm embrace which took me by surprise. I had always framed my thoughts about Jerusalem within the context of the ugliness of its religious wars and its atmosphere of fundamentalism. The color of the limestone, though, remained a constant source of comfort and companionship in its seeming refusal to surrender its morning glow and evening softness to the tensions of its surroundings...
...UNIONS WARM many a Harvard student's heart. Mention "union" and an image of the worker getting just desserts rises up. Non-union labor? Scabs! Ignorant slobs who are unwittingly perpetuating the unjust power of exploitative capitalists...
...warm fall evening, pedestrians jam the wide sidewalks of the city's main avenue, Nevsky Prospekt. They bustle by a young couple absorbed in a passionate kiss, and glance, if only briefly, at a marquee announcing a new American B movie. But at a wall plastered with advertisements and political manifestos, a few stop to listen as members of a small crowd argue the merits of removing Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet state, from his mausoleum in Moscow's Red Square and burying him in a local cemetery. WE MUST SAVE OUR BELOVED CITY FROM THE CORPSE OF LENIN...
...Have you ever thought about private practice? You could be sitting in some mahogany-paneled office, Oriental rugs on the floor, a silver tea service instead of warm diet Coke from the vending machine and leftover plastic cups half-filled with day-old Slim-Fast...