Word: anguishing
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Whether as Comedy Andie here or Tragedy Andie in Harrison's Flowers, MacDowell always rewards watching. Her long, lovely face is both active and pensive; it often seems torn between remembered joy and anticipated anguish. She also has the gift of cuing a change in a film's mood by letting the blood drain from her face...
...moral problem. It is a near fatal professional error. I wonder if the hierarchy knows how gravely the Roman Catholic Church, especially the American church, has been wounded. There's massive internal bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility--yet, in the face of all that, a squirming official attitude mixing anguish and evasion. At least Jimmy Swaggart had the good grace to bawl on television and beat his breast and otherwise oblige the audience with the theatrics of repentance. Last week the Pilot, the newspaper of the archdiocese of Boston, did ask several questions that it admitted are "out there...
...wept when I read the story of cc, the cloned kitty cat [SCIENCE, Feb. 25]. As the owner of two dearly loved cats--and having gone through the anguish of losing one--I dread the coming time when I must say goodbye. But the idea of taking DNA from one of them and thinking that scientists could give me back what I had lost is abhorrent. How many people will have the misguided but understandable hope that they can somehow cheat death? Both of my cats are shelter animals, and when they were kittens, they were...
Zeal may be a quality some viewers will need in order to enjoy Bedroom. Once the lovers disappear, it settles into a film of silent accusations and deflected anguish. But that watchful waiting has a curiously instructive, ultimately hypnotic effect; this, one thinks, is really the way middle-class America hides its hurts. And those silences render more powerful the explosive confrontation between the grieving parents, in which a lifetime's evasions are blown away. They also make the movie's violent conclusion all the more startling, yet utterly right...
...moral problem. It is a near fatal professional error. I wonder if the hierarchy knows how gravely the Roman Catholic Church, especially the American church, has been wounded. There's massive internal bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility--yet, in the face of all that, a squirming official attitude mixing anguish and evasion. At least Jimmy Swaggart had the good grace to bawl on television and beat his breast and otherwise oblige the audience with the theatrics of repentance. Last week the Pilot, the newspaper of the archdiocese of Boston, did ask several questions that it admitted are "out there...