Word: antagonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose one positive act is a negative sacrifice, Morris Carnovsky strikes just the perfect understated note of pathos as Jacob, the part he played almost forty years ago in the original Group Theater production. As the domineering Jewish mother with implacable bourgeois aspirations, Carol Gustafson succeeds as the dislikable antagonist Bessie Berger with a tongue and manner as commanding as any lower-middle class Jewish mother struggling for the good life in America. Though Gustafson kibitzes a bit too much her performance lets us see, as Ralph comes to see, that life made Bessie...
...intense as death becomes more imminent. After 1 5 min utes, readers looking for truth will see the put-on. But true Bondsmen will rejoice at any flimsy excuse to see their man in action again. Bond is last seen heading for Australia on the trackdown of an old antagonist, Irma Bunt, the late Ernst Stavro Blofeld's baleful dumpling from On Her Majesty's Secret Service...
Maude's first antagonist was Archie Bunker, when she stormed onto All in the Family two seasons ago as a visiting cousin. Since spinning off on her own last year, Maude has stirred things up with shows on the legalization of marijuana and the sham of radical chic, as well as a two-part episode on abortion that roused a particularly shrill outcry when it was rerun over the summer (TIME...
...return, he implied future flexibility on arms control and proffered access to the Soviet Union's cornucopia of raw materials and a considerable amount of purposeful good will and bonhomie. It was a masterly performance aimed at erasing in American minds the cold war image of Russia as antagonist and replacing it with a vision of a peaceful, stable and sophisticated trading partner...
...respectful college theatrical. As Nora Helmer, Claire Bloom seems to substitute aspiration for inspiration-a windup doll whose spring is not wound tightly enough under the tensions of dull domesticity in the early going, and who completely runs down in the final confrontation with her husband. As her antagonist, Anthony Hopkins acts more like a spoiled adolescent than an oppressor to reckon with. A quartet of worthy English actors-Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Edith Evans, Anna Massey and Denholm Elliot -wander aimlessly around in the supporting roles...