Word: monstering
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...have been segregated up here in North El Monte-the Beverly Hills of our town. In attempts to make us equal, our rural city council cut down our trees so that we may now look like the rest of the city-a proverbial graveyard straight put of the weekly monster pictures playing at our one local cinema...
...profession of faith in humanity is farcical rather than heroic, showing that individuality in an indifferent universe can be as futile as conformity. At one point, Berenger even longs for the hard green armor of the beasts, but it is too late to change. He proclaims "I am a monster! I am a monster!" and goes on to make his defiant defense of humanity. Only a performance that makes clear the ambivalence of Berenger's final stance can do full justice to the play...
...self as a problem, if not a disease, is at least as old as the Renaissance. One deplores with Anderson that "we have fallen out of love with society on this continent." But it is only another form of self-obsession to put the blame on a three-headed monster ego named Waldo Whitman James. · Melvin Maddocks
Right-wingers in California recently announced support for Tim Leary over Ronald Reagan for governor. Leading libertarian journals have called for armed resistance to taxation and the draft. A New York leader of the 1969 libertarian revolt in YAF now condemns the U. S. as a monster worse than Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. Every major libertarian organization recognizes at least some aspects of U. S. foreign policy as imperialist and many favor and end to U. S. attempts to quash wars of liberation in the Third World...
...commercials go beyond this kind of pleasant but pointlessly low humor, to probe deeper into the diseased minds of Madison Avenue with careful, closely-drawn parodies that are scarcely distinguishable from the originals. The new-car ad, for instance, uses a standard, wide-angle shot-sequence of a chromium monster gleaming in the middle of a desert, a sequence taped from an actual commercial. The dubbed-over pitch makes the claims about the car that, in an ever-tightening ring of circumlocution, the promoters of Fords, Chevrolets and Pontiacs have been working towards for years. "This car protects you from...