Word: anguishes
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...Scenarist Eleanor Perry and her director-husband Frank (who made David and Lisa) have done so by turning the gothic into the baroque. A little boy cannot be a symbol of innocence by himself; he must be playing a pipe like Pan. To give Merrill's mental anguish an exterior, a vanilla-colored, bikini-clad girl companion is added. To increase the audience's anguish, Merrill is made to out his hand on her stomach and quote The Song of Solomon: "Thy belly is like an heap of wheat." The line is difficult enough for any actor...
Although Les Demoiselles de Rochefort spends most of its time chronicling the happy anguish of would-be lovers, and Demy heightens an already infectious gaiety by literally painting the town, reminders of reality pervade the film. A distant war threatens the autonomy of Maxence (Jacques Perrin), an artist searching for Catherine Deneuve; most unusual, friendly M. Dutrouz turns out to be a psychotic killer who has sliced his beloved into sections of varying shapes and sizes and stuffed her into a trunk. But even these mystifying inclusions cannot destroy the sweep of Demy's happy rhapsody (as he well knows...
...last frontier," says Managing Editor Fred Jordan. "Sex also serves other func tions and stands for things beyond itself. It can be a political statement." If sex, in fact, turns sour in so many Evergreen stories, the editors believe that is a reflection of the times, specifically the anguish over the Viet...
...pedestrian imagery, the play rates a Q.E.D. on its major proposition. The fact that it was written by a kitchen-sink realist like Wesker is added evidence that the generation of British playwrights that began by looking back in social anger is now looking forward in private anguish...
...first seven opponents by a composite score of 149-26. Only the Yale game stood between Wood and an eastern championship. Only Yale and Albie Booth. For the Cambridge flash the script was wrong. Harvard got only one scoring opportunity, blew it and then had to watch in anguish as Booth clicked on a late field goal to snap Wood's string...