Word: bents
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Students will vote whether to revert to the council's more traditional focus on student services or to push forward the socially progressive bent forged by current president Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 and her predecessor, Robert M. Hyman...
...just to Diebenkorn's forthrightness as a painter but to his delicacy as well. And it survives even in the little still lifes, which are hardly more than visual nouns--a glass of water on a gray cloth, with orange poppies in it; a knife in another glass, bent by refraction--rendered with the immediacy and verve one associates with Manet's asparagus and peonies...
...McKellan, who originated the role of Max 20 years ago in the stage premier of Bent that won him an Olivier, is luminous in a later cameo as Max's Uncle Freddie. Freddie is a "fluff" like Max, but he's one who has chosen to play it safe by repressing his desires. And, fortunately, several of the play's most powerfully written moments have translated well to film. Especially remarkable is a pivotal scene in Dachau in which Max and Horst, forbidden to touch and kept under the ever-vigilant eye of their guard, make love to each other...
...moments like this in which the characters of Bent almost connect with each other and with the audience, and we are able to see what the film could have become in the hands of actors better suited to their roles and to one another. Unfortunately, the bulk of the movie is weighed down both by the actors' slightly unsympathetic characterizations and by its sluggish pacing...
...Bent's cumulative effect is an extremely heavy, painful and unhappy one. For those who feel that this is an appropriate effect for a film that chronicles atrocity, it will undoubtedly be a fulfilling experience. But those who prefer to be entertained as they are educated may find something lacking. In the end, for better or for worse, it's hard to imagine a more depressing way to spend two hours...