Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minos Volonakis has taken another tack. He views Medea as a social tragedy in which the heroine is victimized as a racial alien and violated as a woman simply because she is a woman. Greece's Irene Papas, who has often played aggrieved and grieving women (Z, Electra, Iphigenia in Aulis), brings to the role a controlled intensity, an innate intelligence, and an implacably stubborn anger. To humanize the part, however, is to make it somewhat less than awesome in its sweeping horror. The paradox remains that the Greek playwrights gave us a gallery of women who bewail their...
...that Fellini's nemesis is reality itself, finally grown bizarre enough to challenge his imagination. So he strains to outdo the exotica of everyday reality, and in the straining finds himself an alien in the modern world. He doesn't know quite what to make of industrial advance, youth culture, and political ferment. He stares at those phenomena with confusion and regret and would willingly retreat to the more secure confusion of more hallucination...
Unfortunately, as ABC is presenting it, the show is not even good soap opera. The backgrounds are beautiful and authentic looking-despite the fact that the film was shot in California-but the producers seem to find the atmosphere of 1936 as alien as 1066. Nor are they helped by the actors. Faye Dunaway (Simpson) flutters her eyes a lot, but she is not a woman for whom a king would give up his crown-or even a good night's sleep. Richard Chamberlain looks remarkably like old photographs of Edward, but he seems to think that...
...source of inspiration. Several times while flying, Bach has heard a voice give him a sharp command which he followed on instinct; it saved his life, he insists. Yet he admits to being nervous about acting as a vehicle for what he long thought of as the alien force that gave him Jonathan. Because he believes in most of what the book illustrates he has also been a bit worried that readers would refuse to take it seriously once they knew about its "kooky" origin...
...notes have resulted in three books: The Teachings of Don Juan (1968), A Separate Reality (1971), and now Journey to Ixtlan. As anthropological documents, they are already classics; no explorer has worked more lucidly at the very edge than Castaneda, describing a system of power and magic terrifyingly alien to his own culture. It is a world in which men can change into crows. Power objects and spirit allies operate inconsistently. There are iridescent talking coyotes and monstrous guardians in the form of hundred-foot-high gnats, and over all one feels the benevolent peyote spirit, Mescalito...