Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesus film with sex and violence is bound to roil the faithful. For Scorsese, though, these elements are bold colors on the canvas, images of the life Jesus must renounce and redeem. The sex scene (in which Barbara Hershey's Mary Magdalene entertains some customers) exposes a strong woman's degradation more than it does her flesh. And the film's carnage is emetic, not exploitative. The crowning with thorns, the scourging at the pillar, the agonized trudge up Calvary show what Jesus suffered and why. Dafoe's spiky, ferocious, nearly heroic performance is a perfect servant to the role...
...nocturnal rambles as she acts out his jealousy and frustration in the most violent form; and Romero films the images as if through a late-night monkey cam. In one of the rages Ella is transmitting to him, Allan bites through his lip, and Ella, with a lover's bold devotion, gently licks the blood. She is not so gentle in drawing blood from the women she sees as rivals for the man and the mind she must possess...
...economic and social reforms)) a natural stage in the development of Soviet socialism?" Dmitri's answer: No, it is not. He added the tart opinion that some people say otherwise "only because Gorbachev is head of our party." A classmate, looking sporty in a black leather tie, was equally bold in discussing the loosening constraints on % Soviet citizens. People of all stripes, "even fascists," he insisted, should have the legal right to form their own political parties to challenge the Communist Party. Said the openly skeptical Predkov: "We don't have any rights. They're just words on paper...
...self-confidence that the Democrats carry to Atlanta this week is a far cry from the cacophonous clashes and me-too defensiveness that characterized recent conventions. But the placid surface should not mask the reality that the party has embarked on a bold and different course. The curtain has finally fallen on the liberalism that guided F.D.R., Lyndon Johnson and -- yes -- Walter Mondale. Now it is up to Michael Dukakis to define its postliberal soul...
...should go after. Picking up a veteran player, one who is usually on the downside of his career but can still provide crucial leadership and experience, is a common practice among teams contending for the division lead in August and September, and the Sox should take just such a bold move at this point...