Word: brights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monothematic eulogizing of a Bruce Springsteen who forever relives the nights of fast cars, bright lights, teenage promiscuity and gang fights; it was the expression of a wandering spirit, probing amid the ruins of the past and picking out vital bits of history or emotion that translate into powerful music...
...inspired play of the all-sophomore left side of the defensive line--tackle Chuck Durst and end Marko Coric--has been just about the lone bright spot for a defensive unit that has consistently given up three or four touchdowns a game...
Love occurs frequently in The Bright Lights. She compares acting to love-making; "to act without love is cruel" is a credo she tries to teach her drama students at Julliard. When Seldes discusses the students, she transforms herself once again; face and voice now radiate maternal warmth. She understands their obsessions, their drives; she sympathizes with the "attempt to create a theater life before the theater accepts you." Such empathy comes naturally to her: "it's not possible to teach without relating to the students as human beings." From excitable little girl to understanding mother-figure, her metamorphosis...
...remains a contradictory figure in many ways. One minute she gleefully strokes her copy of The Bright Lights, reveling in the achievement it represents; the next, she is tough and self-deprecating: "Everyone has a book to write." Her attitude toward her craft and her career mark her as a seasoned, matured performer, yet the enthusiasm, the crazy optimism of the naive neophyte surface constantly. By turns exuberant and restrained, she is sentimental and selfless at the same time. And a new one-word impression forms in the interviewer's mind: enigmatic...
...impression grows stronger when the discussion turns to new literary projects. She thinks The Bright Lights has the ingredients of fiction and actually is at work on a novel. She refuses to elaborate, however. She chastises me for my curiosity, teases me about the book's subject, but spills no secrets. I threaten to write that "Marian Seldes betrays a psychotic reticence about future work." She begs...