Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNLIKE the bombers of more glamorous wars, this one wore no buxom bathing beauty on her fuselage. Nor was a girl's name painted on her nose. In accord with Strategic Air Command practice, only a number-6623-stenciled in yellow on her four-story-high black tail distinguished...
It does not help at all that in Jack Larson's libretto, Byron is given some of his own best lines. "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies," is turned from soliloquy into colloquy, as the operatic Byron croons to one of his...
The position of women in particular in Japan is strange to us. Until recently either a woman married or retired to maiden aunthood, or she became a prostitute. The prostitutes were often women or great culture and provided men with the only intelligent female conversation around, for wives were generally...
What renders this film remarkable, then, is not the depth of its actors but Mizoguchi's perception of their interactions with a restrictive society, one that would keep women from their lovers, artists from their work, men from their friends. No one is ever alone except for the woman trailing...
BUT THE BEAUTY of life, its ineffable yearnings, have their corollary. Mizoguchi is too much in love with his world to treat it harshly--in his film at least--and Yukio Mishima's Rite of Love and Death (1965), showing with it this Friday, is similarly made within assumptions rather...