Word: brutishness
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...YEARS ago Boston-based public prosecutor (now private lawyer) George V. Higgins, building on his experience with the acute hearing of his inventive mind's car, wrote out The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a quick-paced, quick-waited, brutal and brutish novel about small-time men in the Boston underworld Critics praised it, the public bought it. Hollywood filmed it, and Higgins came close to repeating his success with two new crime novels in the next two years. All the while he denied being a crime novelist. "I don't write books about crime," he told me a few days...
...that by 1980 most of these things-some trivial, some precious in their testimony to lost hierarchies of consciousness-will have gone through the big auction houses or been sold by "respectable" private dealers in Europe or the U.S. That is what the art market comes down to: a brutish mugging that never stops. Urbino has turned every public work of art into a paranoid object...
...ushered forth two unquestionably vapid Daisies, plucked from two unquestionably fertile literary minds, played by two unquestionably beautiful women. First to be deflowered was F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. Mia Farrow plays the role with all of its attendant splendour and graceful, but inevitably brutish, carelessness. Farrow maintains a delicate balance between a gay childishness with her illicit lover, Gatsby, and a wanton callousness, a total disregard for anybody's feelings. Henry James's novella, Daisy Miller, adapted for the screen by Peter Bogdanovich, is a portrait of exactly that kind of woman. But Cybill...
...Strindberg's obsession, any relationship between the sexes tended to take on the character of a Hundred Years' War-there might be some redemptive moments, some victories, but mostly it would be nasty, brutish and nearly interminable. Marriage became a sort of ugly paradigm of the human condition...
...McLeod seems to be trying unnecessarily for the oblique angle in an already oblique Brecht play. A few of the supporting characters present fascinating facades, especially Virginia O. Casey as the whorish girl friend of George Garga the librarian (and "wrestler") and Bruce Patt as a stoop-kneed, brutish Weimar version of Skinny, a Chinese clerk according to the text--but they get little assistance even from the more experienced members of the cast...