Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...VERISIMILITUDE goes even beneath the surface; The Return of Martin Guerre paints not only a physical, but also a psychological portrait of peasant life under the ancien regime. And that image is compelling if only for its marked contrast to the lifestyle of modern moviegoers. Even small-town life can not approach the incestuous intimacy of a village in which most of the inhabitants not only are related, but actually live together under one roof. In such close quarters, there are no secrets. When Martin finds that he is impotent, for example, the rest of Artifat finds out too. Perhaps...
...THREE and a half hours. Bergman maintains a seamless child's-eye view. Wishes come true and statues turn into people; everything seems simplistic, but beneath the surface a myriad of half-truths exists. Safe within their highly dramatic world, the characters lead sensual lives controlled by goods, ornaments...
...Fiction John Updike lampoons Jack Kerouac: "Gogi Himmelman of the tattered old greenasgrass knickers . . . and the vastiest, most vortical, most insatiable eyes." But savagery is not a one-way street. Updike's Rabbit is roasted by Ian Duncan: "Big Chicken Henderson scoops and whittles at the space beneath his chin with a checkout-counter razor." After caricatures of versifiers like Shakespeare ("To be or not to be; that is the bare bodkin") and novelists like Jane Austen ("Are you not happy in Hertfordshire, Mr. Raskolnikov?"), Editor William Zaranka confesses, "The avowed purpose of both volumes is the same...
...Pope then celebrated a memorial Mass for Wyszynski. In his homily John Paul urged Poles to consider the Passion of Christ. The Pontiff told the hushed assembly, crammed into every alcove of the vaulted church, that he stood beneath the Cross, "together with all my compatriots-especially those who are most acutely tasting the bitterness of disappointment, humiliation, suffering, of being deprived of their freedom, of being wronged, of having their dignity trampled upon." Then, in a second indirect appeal to jailed Solidarity supporters, he cited Wyszynski's three-year ordeal under house arrest during a state campaign against...
Clad in a golden chasuble and wearing his gold mitre, John Paul held a crucifix in his left hand as he spread his arms wide to offer his blessing to the multitude. The Pope stood beneath a 40-ft. white crucifix with the image of Christ in reverse relief, as if the body had been scooped out of the cross, and delivered a homily in which he called for national reconciliation through "mutual dialogue and agreement." The crowd broke into applause when he declared that "I, too, have lived deeply the whole experience of these years since August...