Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Looking backward, Anya is determined to make sense of time's frightening discontinuity. To establish a solid starting point, she rebuilds almost brick by brick the Savikin family's opulent apartment in Vilno. Here is her room, gaudy with color; here is the austere chamber of Sister Vera, who thinks only of her piano; here is Zoshia, the youngest maid, skating about with a brush on each foot, polishing the parquetry...
...heart belongs to Brick (Keir Dullea), who spurns her in bed and is drowning in alcohol out of fear that he may be a homosexual. Brick's father, Big Daddy (Fred Gwynne), is dying of cancer, and the childless Maggie is in a steely duel with Brick's brother Gooper (Charles Siebert) and his fecund wife Mae (Joan Pape) for the imminent in heritance of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile." What evolves is a series of confrontations that would reduce the forthcoming Foreman-Ali fight to a game of pattycake...
Gwynne's Big Daddy is a man of cutting cruelty, but he lacks the roguish animal magnetism of Burl Ives in the 1955 original. Dullea is much too nerveless as Brick; his crutch upstages him. Stalwart Kate Reid rates a special citation for her earthy, grieving, raging Big Mama. But it is Elizabeth Ashley, purring, clawing, fighting for her man, who gives the play a mesmeric, electrifying intensity. ∎ T.E.K...
...investigation reflected that the bullet which killed Butler Young actually hit another object before it ever went into his body," the attorney said. "The evidence shows that the bullet was partially mutilated. In my opinion, it hit something like a brick wall before it ever hit him. This would indicate to me that the policemen were firing around or above...
...measure of pique. But now Amis stands revealed as a misanthrope sans merci. From Ending Up it is clear that if anyone asked him the old vaudeville question "Would you hit a lady with a baby?" Amis might gleefully reply: "No, I'd hit her with a brick." And mean...