Word: obsessionals
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Masters and servants share a paradoxical equality and intimacy in several works of Western literature and drama. Think of Lear and his Fool, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza and, in this rarely presented play of Moliere's, Don Juan and Sganarelle. The masters are in the grip of some...
In their own way, these people are part of a mounting U.S. obsession with food. Whether they are simply trying to get thin, or whether they are pursuing health or even salvation through diet, Americans are perhaps more preoccupied than any other nation with what to eat, what not to...
Customary proportions of war were skewed, endowed with a wild irony. The greatest military power on earth brought all of its technology?all but the doomsday bombs?to bear on a peasant nation slightly larger than Florida. The smallest war, 9,000 miles from San Diego, became a national obsession...
Even America's staunchest allies, while not unsympathetic, used to be dismayed by Washington's obsession with Viet Nam. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger have begun to rebuild American prestige and influence by the daring, skillful summit diplomacy that led to the agreement with Hanoi. To achieve their grandly labeled...
The film is filled with many such eccentric japes, all aimed at some aspect of the bourgeoisie's amorality, their scornful detachment and their resulting obsession with manners and surfaces. If the film lacks quite as much force as it might have had, that is because the targets themselves...