Word: bacchantic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this point Pentheus has been doomed and the Bacchant chorus is praising the sweetness of vengeance. The scene is creepier than mere Halloween fantasy. The immediacy of Williams' language, its claim on the play's disturbing juxtaposition of beauty and inclemency (the chorus as, perhaps, "Les Belles Dames Sans Merci"?) must be what attracted Walker, Harper and the rest of the staff...
...Lemmon, a neat, courteous, helpful young adman who resides in suburban San Francisco with two children, one dreadfully adorable duck, and his leggy All-American wife (Dorothy Provine). Everyone who has ever seen a Jack Lemmon movie will instantly surmise that the model account exec is a three-button bacchant, and so he is. The girl next door (Romy Schneider) cannot collect a $15 million inheritance unless she collects a hus band, fast. And who is the lucky fellow who has to commute across back lawns, masquerading as his good neighbor's spouse? Mmm-hmmm...
...college man has been noted since the wastrel days of the Goliards as a bacchant of the first degree. How much truth and how much poetical tradition there is in this reputation it is rather difficult to say. It is sufficiently true that each succeeding generation during its four short years of life endeavors through the medium of a few picked individuals to maintain the glory of the vine...
| 1 |