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...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Balancing faintheartedness and bravado, Playwright Peter Shaffer has written two one-acters in which an imaginative boy and a brash detective shadow love...
...youth, an Italian boy entering a white-collar job, is no fragile Dedalus embarking upon a tragic bildungsroman; neither is he a dashing hero in a setting devoid of heroism. Domenico's passage into adulthood takes place without ceremony or bravado. He passes quietly, but not painlessly, self-consciously, but never cutely, into a world of hopeless vacuity. Throughout the movie Olmi shows him what he may become--a dulled commuter from lower middle-class suburbs, a paunchy clerk gazing through shop windows, an embittered office-worker yearning for a piddling promotion...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Balancing faintheartedness and bravado, romanticism and Life Force, Playwright Peter Shaffer has written two one-acters in which an imaginative boy and a cocky detective shadow love...
...REHEARSAL rehearses a young and innocent governess for the later cruelties of life. Playwright Anouilh orchestrates a seduction scene-the play's best-with brasses of bravado, violins of pity, and flutes of tenderness...
They are more than that; they are machos. Whether involved with a mistress, a mishap or an election, the Latin American male is constantly forced to prove his aggressive masculinity by a compelling phenomenon called machismo. In its simplest form, machismo is the gaudy bravado of the bullfighter, the outdoor he-manliness of the gaucho, the straightforward heterosexuality of the playboy. "The kind of man that men follow and women chase" is how one Peruvian woman defines it. But the trait goes farther than simple male ego. It turns arguments into blood feuds, business dealings into tests of strength...