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Where does the love of man end and the love of God begin? Can an individual's passion be divided between the two without disaster to man or affront to God? Does God demand terrible sacrifice as atonement for an innocent appetite for earthly life? These are questions that Ingmar Bergman has grappled with in many of his 31 bleak, brooding films. In The Act of the Heart, Canadian Producer-Writer-Director Paul Almond tries to explore the same problems, while simultaneously creating a St. Joan-like allegory of a country girl's purity and passion...
Actress Bujold is incontestably a beguiling martyr, alternatingly childlike and womanly. But the force of her radiance is blunted by the conventionality of her role. Realizing that their love is an affront to man and God, Martha immolates herself. This is intended to be her act of the heart. Instead, it is simply the awkward denouement of Almond's chaotic vision. Mark Goodman
...Agnew's acerbic animadversions affront, antagonize and alienate attentive Americans...
Burger made his appeal for decency on the day of the California kidnaping, the most bizarre affront to justice in a long time. Jonathon Jackson, 17, brother of a black accused of racial killings in a Soledad, Calif, prison, walked into the Marin County Hall of Justice in San Rafael, 15 miles north of San Francisco. Judge Harold Haley, 65, was presiding over the trial of James McClain, accused of stabbing a San Quentin prison guard while serving a sentence for burglary. Other San Quentin inmates were on hand as witnesses. Ruchell Magee, 31, was inside the courtroom; William Christmas...
Myra Breckinridge is about as funny as a child molester. It is an insult to intelligence, an affront to sensibility and an abomination to the eye. Based on Gore Vidal's sordid little sex-change novel, the movie took nine months and at least $5,000,000 to make and spawned more tales of cast warfare than any film since The Night of the Iguana. The result is an incoherent tale of sodomy, emasculation, autoeroticism and plain bad taste...