Word: anguishingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recognizing the spiritual anguish caused when people can neither live together in conjugal love nor get a divorce, some priests have been known to advise young couples, pressured to marry because the girl is pregnant, to contract a civil wedding. Later on, if they see that their life together is working out, they can get married in church...
...frosted window pane of a room in Moscow, a candle's flame slowly melts a circle through which the camera peers at a young man reading a letter. As he absorbs terrible revelations about the girl he loves, the circle becomes a poetic, crystaline metaphor for his swollen anguish and the inevitable burning away of youth's illusions. Such fully visualized moments are the key to Director David Lean's triumph over the challenge of filming Boris Pasternak's monumental bestseller. With monastic zeal (TIME, Dec. 24), he has translated the book into a movie that...
...Harvard Class of '69, like every freshman class, has been rebuffed by Cliffies at mixers and snubbed at sections, but this year's Yardlings have annotated their anguish...
...little girl lost behind a battered big-bellied guitar. Her dusky face, framed by a cascade of raven hair that spills across her shoulders and down to her waist, seems frozen in mournful repose. In a throaty voice edged with anguish, she sings some of the unlikeliest lyrics ever heard in a nightclub: But where in the history books is the tale Of genocide basic to this country's birth, Of the preachers who lied, How the Bill of Rights failed...
...junkie and dope pusher evokes sympathy mainly by pushing the film's thesis that most such cases stem from "lack of affection." Producer-Director Jerónimo Mitchell Melendez ignores complex social and psychological factors when he suggests that most addicts turn to the needle to tranquilize Oedipal anguish. But despite his sociological hokum, he projects a sordid milieu with grim documentary accuracy...