Word: angelicizing
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When the huge, almost grotesquely muscular men file into the room behind the stage of Olympiisky Stadium, they cannot help but steal a glance at the closed curtains of cubicle No. 17. There, in the corner of the vast hall, Alexeyev rests, stretched out on a bed, all 6 ft...
The situation is classic. Reasons for juxtaposing the ordinary with the ominous must be found. A scheme for keeping the two sequestered until they have worked out their destiny must be set forth. The everyday element is represented by the Torrance family. Dad (Jack Nicholson) is a writer who claims...
Charges of angelic fraud, a verdict of plagiarism
Though as angelic in appearance as any child model in a TV commercial, he has none of the self-consciousness that often defeats kids onscreen. When he fights with his father over the dinner table or cries for his mommy in the night, the emotions are not italicized but spontaneous...
This isn't to say that the film is unflawed. There are moments when the film gets carried away with itself. In "How Can People Be So Cruel," mother and angelic, teary eyed three-year old too-loudly protest to the breadwinning hulk who has left them for hedonistic diversion...