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...that is not to be confused with anguish. Anguish is what has obsessed many of our best-known "confessional poets," including Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. They also expressed some joys, but in the end depression always tipped the balance. Lowell fought the dank beast throughout his life. Berryman, Plath and Sexton took their own lives when, as Rilke wrote in "The Song of the Suicide," the world's profusion entered the head rather than the bloodstream...
...like symbols, Equus is studded with the type of rich imagery that will easily come to mind with the mere mention of the film's title. Many viewers of Equus will fasten onto the scene of the nude Strang riding a madly galloping steed, a union of man and beast thrown into relief by backgrounds that alternate between the darkest of nights and a blinding brilliance of light. But the segment that qualifies as Lumet's tour de force lies elsewhere, in the scene showing Strang's brutal rampage through a stable--sparked by his failure to make love...
Spears will soon be transferred to a lower security prison. It won't have a Reach-Out program. He describes what the program means to him personally, waxing almost rhapsodically about his "metamorphosis from the beast to the butterfly," his new attitude...
Perhaps The Beast's best feature is his efficiency. He has led the team's ground attack while averaging only six-and-a-half carries per game. Despite the fact that his 5.8 yards-per-carry average ranks right up there with Walter Payton and Tony Dorsett, Doherty doesn't mind the infrequency of his carries...
With the shoulder repaired by an off season operation, this year's Beast is back at full-strength. And he's a beautiful sight...