Word: rigidness
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...Magic Flute, in other words, is more folk opera than grand opera, and in the absence of rigid performance traditions, each director can pretty much do with it what he wishes. And so David Prum's idea--staging the whole thing on a giant subway-entrance staircase, complete with fluorescent "Red Line" sign on top--in itself does no violence to the work. Nothing in The Magic Flute rules out this approach. But after three hours of characters scurrying up and down the stairs and rotating the structure on its metal-pipe supports, nothing emerges from The Magic Flute...
After Son bathes and becomes more acceptable to Jadine's delicate senses, he draws her closer and closer to a mythical world of ancient Black customs. He is Natural Man, flexible enough to do and be everything for her, but rigid enough to make her as "natural" as he is. The "savannahs in his eyes" lure her, and yet his presence upsets all her next artifices and all those of the household. Morrison identifies Son's revelatory force with his unwashed body's smell which is powerful enough to wake a sleeping Jadine and to arouse her sexually, but horrible...
Book packagers do. Pushing their products like brands of cosmetics, publishers offer rigid "lines" of fiction. "The sameness of the stories gives women comfort," says Karen Solem, editor in chief of Silhouette Romances. "They buy one line because they know they won't find something they don't want to see." Adds Bill Edwards, vice president of the 530-store B. Dalton Booksellers chain, where romances account for 30% of mass-market paperback sales: "The women know what days their new lines arrive here. They buy four or six novels at a whack, every month." The market...
...PEOPLE OF POLAND have won the hearts of Americans in the past year, proving their courage, good humor and willingness to sacrifice while they challenged the repressively rigid bureacuracy that rules their nation. We read of their strikes and speeches, their ultimatums and small triumphs, with the giddy sense that this is a moral drama of the highest order. And indeed it is, the heroes and the villains separate and distinct...
...Maids. In 1933, in Le Mans, Léa and Christine Papin killed their employer, Mme. Lancelin, and her daughter. Kesselman has retained the names of the sisters, but otherwise the play is very much her own. The playwright focuses on mother-daughter relationships, intimate sisterly affection and a rigid class structure that borders on the feudal droit du seigneur...