Word: groundedness
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Joseph Heller gets more miles per novel than any other American-made author. Consider the phenomenal efficiency of Catch-22, a book that continues to run on one joke. It is the old switcheroo, best expressed by Doc Daneeka when he tells Yossarian "that a concern for one's...
But what makes the film work, at least at the pop-fairy-tale level, is the reality principle. The plot is improbable: the girl is left blind by injuries sustained in a bad fall, then begins a long, painful but ultimately successful struggle to regain her sight and skills. Yet...
An affinity with childhood - irrepressible, irresponsible, zany, sulky -brings out the best and the worst in Play wright Weller. His previous drama, Moonchildren, was a balloon flight through the gravityless '60s. In Loose Ends, now at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, the characters are grounded in the '...
At Khomeini's headquarters at Neauphle-le-Château, aides had set up a table under an apple tree and begun taking press reservations for seats on the jumbo jet that was to carry Khomeini home. Unfazed by news that Iran Air was grounded, the Ayatullah's...
Improved relations with China open new opportunities for policy-makers as well. American Asian policy for the last 30 years--highlighted by two wars--has been marked by diplomacy ignorantly conceived and irrationally executed. Without communication with the dominant nation in the region or an understanding of the cultural background...