Word: bared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only Lisa Lindley, as Pentheus' mother Agave, conveys a compelling sense of this worldgone-bad. As leader of the maenads, she is a portrait of frenzy. Blood-splattered and hysterical with glee from killing a wild animal with her bare hands, Lindley's Agave touches upon the horror of Euripide's play...
...make a mockery of the sentiment that there is no place like home. For the past two months Yolanda Gonzales, her daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter have resided in a dilapidated two-car garage in Lynwood, Calif. Patches of dirt blotch the linoleum floor, electrical wires snake along bare walls, a door opens to a reeking kitchen dominated by a blackened stove. At $300 a month it is, alas, almost a bargain. "Nothing is affordable," says Gonzales, 42, whose daughter is on welfare and whose son-in-law lost his job as a handyman. "We had to settle...
Dawn Steel, president of production at Paramount, recalls that Mamet's first draft was an "outline, very sparse." How sparse? Capone was hardly in it. To flesh out Mamet's bare-bones script, Steel and her boss Ned Tanen wanted De Palma. "In the past," she says, "Brian hasn't chosen the material that was worthy of him and that he was worthy of. He was making homages to Alfred Hitchcock. This one is a homage to Brian De Palma -- he felt it instead of directing it. With this picture he became a mensch." It surely marked a ! change from...
...surprises are few and far between. What one gets instead is a soothing reliability of product -- the familiar "world of Wyeth," which has such a vast following in America and has lately acquired a smaller one in the Soviet Union, no doubt because his version of American landscape (bare birches, patches of snow, brown stubble, rocks and iced-up puddles, all under a white sky) looks so like Siberia. To gauge how the roots of his imagination go, one need only compare his painting of the nude Helga with a black ribbon round her neck, face averted, floating...
...this optimistic solution does no more than lay bare the marrow of the problem, namely, the nature of people's wants. If Americans wish to strike a truer ethical balance, they may need to re-examine the values that society so seductively parades before them: a top job, political power, sexual allure, a penthouse or lakefront spread, a killing on the market. The real challenge would then become a redefinition of wants so that they serve society as well as self, defining a single ethic that guides means while it also achieves rightful ends...