Word: archness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...again with still another angle on lago as he evilly fingers Desdemona's hanky. And look! lago is curling the old lip just a trifle. Nice curl too, eh, Chuck? This chap was learning lip curling when the rest of that cast couldn't find the proscenium arch with both hands. Incidentally, about that hanky -you know, the star himself bought that hanky for 79? at Lamston 's just before opening when it turned out the prop man used the real thing as a dustcloth. Now back to the action onstage...
...CAPITOL HILL REPUBLICANS dismissed their vanquished foes late last week with a half-hearted round of "So long, fellas; we hate to see you go," the New and Revived Right began reshuffling its direct-mail listings for 1982. The arch-conservatives have claimed a healthy share of the credit for the GOP victory and now promise to redouble their assault on all liberals. Anyone left of Kemp-Roth, be he Democrat or Republican, had better head for cover, they warn...
...production also succeeds in recreating the detail of Brecht's fanciful vision of America as a Babylon on wheels. Sordid vulgarity falls from the garish costumes, the trashy props, and the giant neon arch--inscribed with the names of the seven sins lighting up in succession like a stage-wide slot machine that lands on whichever sins is being acted out below. In this world, beauty becomes a painted go-go dancer, so it's no wonder lust, pride and anger should seem more virtuous than the alternatives of self-denial, hypocrisy and quiescence...
...prevailing neo-conservative outlook, offer a soundly argued, albeit imaginative, confirmation of his socialist and egalitarian principles. Here, Walzer aptly flaunts his philosophical intellect, demonstrating the depth, precision and creativity to render some of his far-fetched notions plausible, if not convincing. His "In Defense of Equality" attacks arch-neo-conservative Irving Kristol's attempt to justify large-income inequalities as the natural product of a hierarchy of innate abilities. For Walzer, the moral claim to the products of society cannot depend on some specious ground of superior ability, but on specific human qualities and needs...
Still, the incident showed that the Senate Republicans have to get their act together. They are now divided roughly into three bickering groups: the 15 or so middle-of-the-road conservatives, who will try to get bills passed through compromise; about 25 arch-right-wingers...