Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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If there were any justice to our intervention in Vietnam, these two incidents might be called victories. But the aggressive character of our intervention and our tremendous military superiority make them appear more extortions than victories.
The character is a promising one, and perhaps one day Farrow can play it for what it's worth. For now, she is trapped in a glossy, twittering movie that poses as a psychological horror story. Leonora, an over-the-hill prostitute (Elizabeth Taylor), is accosted by Cencion a...
In many of his previous films-notably Accident and The Servant-Losey has shown skill at conjuring up corruption and terror. Here he is undone by his scenarist, George Tabori, who attempts a ghostly esthetic melodrama in the style of Henry James. Tabori provides all of the mannerisms of the...
Eva Trout, Bowen's eighth novel, is typical of her writing and unlike anything else being published today. Once more the author concerns herself with the domination of the strong by the weak; "they have such incredible staying power," one character laments. Eva is the formless, feckless person who...
Courageous, only occasionally embarrassing, They communicates best the troubling reflections of a liberal generation that worked for change and revolution only to find the results horrifying. We were caught, one character observes, "between the Puritan and the pornographer." Calculated to attract the young, the book will most touch the middleaged...