Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Her passive watching is interrupted when she is given a child. Emily, a protect. It isn't clear why Emily should be the narrator's responsibility--a man drops the girl off and that's that. Such details are unimportant when the world is dissolving, and, like the narrator herself...
The Memoirs of a Survivor is not so much a novel as a fable. Obviously our own world is not so badly disintegrated few of us fear that our pets or those we love will be made into someone else's dinner. But Aesop's fables make sense to us...
Dream Sequence. On the other hand, the cumbersome romantic story involves what might be best described as a severe credibility gap. Briefly put, it tells of a countess in medieval Hungary who is torn between love for her betrothed, a dashing crusader named Jean de Brienne, and an earthier affection...
Less impressive though generally laudable is Kate Mulgrew as Emily, the object of George's affection. She is at her best in Act I, called "Daily Life," and Act II, called "Love and Marriage." Especially effective is her handling of the drugstore scene, in which Emily is ill-at-ease...
It is, evidently, the price one pays for an Allen comedy. It is worth the fee. For unlike his closest cinematic competitor, Mel Brooks, Allen aims his custard pies up, not down. If his humor is merciless, it is not unkind; Boris' angry monologues with God are closer to...