Word: anguishingly
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There are also home-town girlfriends who arrive for a weekend visit, with chaperones, of course; as one is guided around the encampment by the lucky boy she has come to see, Scouts not so fortunate exchange looks of anguish and envy...
Jean Rochefort has heretofore put his sheepish grin and Slinky-like gait into the service of boulevard comedy. Here he is both more powerful and more discreet, signaling the film's shifting moods with each new spasm of Gilles's anticipation and anguish. Delphine Seyrig, who plays his neighbor, the lovely, slow-witted Yvette, was once the very model of Marienbad chic. It is a pleasure to see those enigmatic eyes widen in what Yvette means to convey as delight, to see her smile squirm at Gilles's gentle ribaldry...
...bestseller, this was a good read, but on film, the crimes the Needle commits on his escape route are so psychopathically gory that he is rendered loathsome. Sutherland's sometimes effective stillness, and some routine direction, are also offputting. On the other hand, Nelligan's anguish is quite touching; she grants the film's final passages a certain suspenseful, almost redeeming, grace...
...done. Somebody could produce a Literature of Niceness to supplement the not-so-nice real thing. In a society that is overloaded with writers, there must be imagination enough to contrive sunnier alternative life-styles for many of the fictional characters who otherwise will endure in the pain, anguish and futile passion imagined by their authors. Why, for one instance, shouldn't King Lear be seen in some truly golden retirement years, preferably in an adults-only community? And why not a tale in which Othello and Desdemona kiss and make up? Imagine Lady Macbeth joining the Gray Ladies...
...tragedy of Timerman's ordeal is more than his personal anguish. The Jewish community of Argentina and others should recognize this fact. The ovens of anti-Semitism may be waiting again, but no Jew will ever dig his own grave or walk placidly into those ovens...