Word: ruin
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while plotting his family's ruin, Count Cenci muses: "The difference between the villainies committed in real life and the villainies acted out on the stage is that in real life we do more and say less: while in the theater we talk endlessly and accomplish very little." Cenci proposes to restore the balance, but because of Artaud's limited idea of theater and the production's failings, his promise goes unfulfilled. The Cenci is mostly talk...
...fact, the book is unrelentingly harsh on the ex-President only when to be otherwise would completely ruin Safire's own credibility. He assails Nixon's loathing of the press, his taping and wiretapping, his lying about Watergate. Yet even about these seemingly inexcusable Nixon transgressions Safire tries to plant redeeming doubts. Formerly a public relations man and now an erratic columnist for the New York Times, Safire seems to share his former boss's conspiratorial view of the press. According to Safire, it was "hatred of the press that slowly, steadily, and then suddenly pulled Nixon...
...deep feelings for Toshio. It is also clear that she and Keiko share a lesbian love. And before long it is obvious that Keiko has come to like very much the dismay she causes when she is capriciously cruel. She sets out, giggling, to seduce Toshio and to ruin his son. What is unsatisfactory about this is not that it rings false, but that it does not ring...
...state of limbo, and the Humanities may be suffering the most. Dean Rosovsky's commission to reinvestigate undergraduate education should not simply look for remedies for the ills of an outdated system of General Education, but attempt to rebuild the entire structure that is presently in ruin...
...than they ever dreamed of any they make films that are, indeed, different from their earlier, low-budget works, but films of undoubted high quality. In America, the big money goes only to those directors who sell out to the formulas imposed by their audience and Hollywood manages to ruin men of talent...